>>>>> "AM" == Adrian Mariano <[email protected]> writes: AM> I don't believe there is any fully automated "nice" way to produce such a AM> list. I guess a question is why you want the list.
Purely from the Don Rickles 'can't find the --list option' frustrated customer stance: iconv has -l, where's units' -l? This kind of customer has no patience to learn about all the better ways you offer of finding what he wants. So I would make --list/-l do just the same as $ more ~/.units.dat /usr/share/misc/units.dat|cat He will be more than happy as he now has lots of info to grep through or browse etc. AM> That's good for humans, but not people. You can get that same result AM> by doing "help <meter>" though you might have issues with paging He would be to impatient to learn how to do that. AM> backwards in some pagers. I could add a line to the help that says: AM> "To see the units definitions look in the file <filename>." Yes that would be exactly enough too. Don't forget to mention ~/.units.dat (even if they have none yet.) AM> ./units --check-verbose | sed -n "s/doing '\(.*\)'/\1/p" Our Rickles can't deal with that. AM> From within the program you can do "search a" for example to get all AM> units containing "a", but there's no way to get *all* units. This AM> list is formatted in two columns with the definition on the right. A AM> simple list of all the units is a bit much for human consumption. He just wants a big dump, so telling him the .dat files would be fine. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
