10 Environment variables
The units
programs uses the following environment variables.
- LOCALE
- Specifies the locale. The default is en_US. Sections of the
units database are specific to certain locales.
- PAGER
- Specifies the pager to use for help and for displaying the conformable
units. The help function browses the units database and calls
the pager using the
+nn
syntax for specifying a line number. The
default pager is more
, but less
, emacs
, or
vi
are possible alternatives.
- UNITSFILE
- Specifies the units database file to use (instead of the default). This
will be overridden by the -f option. Note that you can only
specify a single units database using this environment variable.