/ConvertU-CLI

A CLI converter for Mass, Digital Storage, Length, Speed, Temperature, Frequency, Area, Time... Written in Python

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

NOTE

ConvertU-CLI is now depreciated, please go to ConvertU-CCLI if you want something more up to date

ConvertU-CLI

A simple CLI converter program written in Python

Index

Why ConvertU?

  • It has a bunch of different units, and very easy to use installer for Linux and MacOS.

  • FOSS, You are free to modify, read, distribute the code as outlined in GPL3

  • Feel Free to make your own forks of it! Modify however you want you don't have to rely on me

  • Very useful on a day to day basis. If you quickly want to convert minutes to seconds, millimetres to metres, etc

How to run

MacOS and Linux Dependancies

Python

Install Python and Pip. For instructions, please check the Python Downloads website

Git

To git clone of course!

Python Installer

It seems only on arch that there is a bug where you need to install a AUR package called

Python-Installer-Git

Also thank you to my good friend Jaami for pointing this out and helping out ConvertU

MacOS and Linux

You guys are lucky. You guys have installers. Simply run 

git clone https://github.com/PhotonMastr/ConvertU-CLI

and then run

cd ConvertU-CLI

Now, you have to note what shell you're using. IF you know what shell you are using ignore this command but if you do not run this command

ps -p $$

it should print out the following...

now this is where the shell name is

IF it prints this

that means that you're on fish, don't worry about the error but it is telling you you're on fish shell so in that case use the fish install script!

Once you have all of this noted, simply run

chmod +x install-[shell name].sh

and then

./install-[shell name.sh]

It will tell you when it is installed. Now that it is installed you can run

ConvertU

And that's it for MacOS/Linux

Windows

linux

Go to the Releases Page Click on the text ConvertU-CLI-[version here]-Windows.exe

And it should download a file in your Downloads folder. I'm sure if you've used windows before... you know the drill. Double click the file and it just works

Notice about antivirus flag on windows

I mentioned this on the discord but I think that I should mention it here. Running ConvertU on Windows is a bit dodgy, allow me to explain

Everyone's favourite operating system(not really lol) **Windows** seems to think ConvertU-CLI is a virus. Is ConvertU-CLI a virus? No, lol... I still don't really know why it flags it as such but it just does and if you really don't believe me I mean read the source code yourself. Anyways I don't really feel like typing out the instructions on how to get it working with the antivirus blockade but if you wanna know check my discord server which is below!! Thanks lol

Discord Server

Wanna be possibly involved in the project, wanna talk to me? Need to ask questions? Well the Discord Server is the right place for you

ConvertU

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