about

I don't like using the Imperial system. Whenever someone in a YouTube video mentions fluid ounces, feet and square yards, I pause, open up my browser and search for a conversion site. This is fairly slow, though (and I needed a new project) so I decided to make metrify. Metrify easily allows conversions from Imperial units to metric units.

why not use units?

You may ask yourself: "Why not just install units from apt?" And that's a great question. I don't like the interface of units. It works great (arguably far better than metrify) but I wanted a different interface and – as I mentioned above – I was bored and needed something to do.

features

• Short and long versions of the units (i.e. square feet and sq ft)
• Plural support for (most) units (i.e. foot and feet)
• Automatic addition of prefixes (i.e 1000m -> 1km and 0.01m -> 1cm)

planned (maybe)

• Support for multiple units (i.e. 6ft3in)
• Better handling for prefixes (i.e. no "hecto-" or "deca-" for meters and other units where it isn't customary)

building

To build metrify you can run rustc main.rs from /src or cargo build --release from /metrify. You may need to run chmod +x metrify to allow execution. You can then copy the metrify binary to ~/.local/bin to run it from anywhere.

running

You can run ./metrify from the /metrify directory (or just run metrify if you copied it to ~/.local/bin).

example

trility@pop-os:~$ metrify
You have:
8 square feet
Which roughly equals:
0.743m²
You have:
30 miles
Which roughly equals:
48.280km
You have:
8 us fl oz
Which roughly equals:
2.366dL
You have:
1 uk pint
Which roughly equals:
5.683dL
You have:
^C
trility@pop-os:~$

currently supported units

length (base unit meter)

• inch (in)
• foot (ft)
• yard (yd)
• mile (mi)
• fathom (ftm)
• cable length (cbl)
• nautical mile (nmi)

mass (base unit gram)

• pound (lb)
• ounce (oz)
• grain (gt)
• dram (dr)
• stone (st)
• quarter (qr)
• hundredweight (cwt)
• ton (t)

pressure (base unit bars)

• pounds per square inch (psi)
• feet of water (ftH2O)
• atmospheres (atm)
• pounds per square foot (psf)

velocity (base unit meters per second)

• feet per second (ft/s)
• miles per hour (mph)
• knots (kn)

acceleration (base unit meters per second squared)

• feet per second squared (ft/s²)
• miles per hour per second (mph/s)
• inches per second squared (in/s²)

mileage (base unit liters per 100 kilometers)

• miles per gallon (mpg)

volume (base unit liter)

• cubic inch (in³)
• cubic foot (ft³)
• us fluid ounce (us fl oz)
• us gallon (us gal)
• uk fluid ounce (uk fl oz)
• uk gallon (uk gal)
• us pint (us pt)
• us quart (us qt)
• uk pint (uk pt)
• uk quart (uk qt)
• us cup (us cup)
• us fluid drams (us fl dr)

area (base unit square meters)

• square inch (sq in)
• square foot (sq ft)
• square yard (sq yd)
• acre (ac)
• square mile (sq mi)