Alias: convert units (with Units)

[Jabberwock]

Someone asked for this so nicely:  

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8071.msg212665#msg212665

that I have patched up a simple unit converter alias with the use of GNU units program

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_%28software%29

(wiki lists the windows binary link - you need to install it and/or GNU-WIN).

Here it is:

Code

1000>>>units>->showmemo Result:;;;appcapappendmemo C:\Program Files\Editing\GnuWin32\bin\units.exe "$$1" "$$2">+>units (.*) to (.*)

Naturally, you may need/want to modify the path and the expression.

Usage:

units 100 miles/hour to km/hour

Result:
* 160.9344
/ 0.0062137119

[tomos]

this sounds very nice