pu

NAME

physicalunits - encodes and de-codes physical units a according to ISO/IEEE 11073-10101:2004 Tables A6.1 and A6.3
physicalunits was formerly also known under "pu".

SYNOPSIS

physicalunits [units_or_codes]

DESCRIPTION

The output returns the <physical unit>:<TAB><decimal code><TAB><hexadecimal code><TAB><scaling><TAB><physical unit w/o prefix>, where <TAB> represents the character ascii(9)

Examples:

Encoding of "microVolts", using text representation, decimal encoding and hexadecimal encoding:
physicalunits mV

uV 4275

0x10b3

1e-06

V

physicalunits 4275

uV 4275

0x10b3

1e-06

V

physicalunits 0x10b3

uV 4275

0x10b3

1e-06

V

Text representation containing spaces need to be quoted
physicalunits "kg l-1"

kg l-1

				2051
				0x0803			1000	g l-1

A list of units can be converted using multiple input arguments
physicalunits mV nA 4180 kg dag degree rpm "mol mol-1" "kg l-1"

mV 4274

				0x10b2		0.001		V nA 4180
				0x1054		1e-09		A nA 4180
				0x1054		1e-09		A kg 1731
				0x06c3		1000	g dag 1729
				0x06c1		10	g degree
				736	0x02e0		1	degree rpm 6816
				0x1aa0		1	rpm mol mol-1
				864	0x0360		1	mol mol-1 kg l-1
				2051	0x0803		1000	g l-1

physicalunits ‘seq 0 65535‘ |grep -v nan |grep -v null
shows s complete table of defined units

AUTHOR

Alois Schloegl

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Alois Schloegl License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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