whenever I use the units command from a script, e.g.:
elapsed=86500 echo elapsed time: `units "$elapsed sec" hms` elapsed time: *Currency exchange rates from 2012-10-24* 24 hr + 1 min + 40 sec
the man page even says it outputs that when run without arguments.
My question is why in the world does it? certainly when run from within a script doing conversions of time using the "hms" option, I don't want that to be stuck in the middle of my output.
Anybody know why it does that, or how to make it quit? (I know, I use sed to filter it out, but can't understand why I should have to.
Thanks in advance!
Fred
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 06:20:28PM -0500, Fred wrote:
whenever I use the units command from a script, e.g.:
elapsed=86500 echo elapsed time: `units "$elapsed sec" hms` elapsed time: *Currency exchange rates from 2012-10-24* 24 hr + 1 min + 40 sec
the man page even says it outputs that when run without arguments.
My question is why in the world does it? certainly when run from within a script doing conversions of time using the "hms" option, I don't want that to be stuck in the middle of my output.
Anybody know why it does that, or how to make it quit? (I know, I use sed to filter it out, but can't understand why I should have to.
Thanks in advance!
You might consider terse output:
$ units -t '86500 sec' hms 24;1;40
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