RINK(1)

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version 0.9.0 · 3 versions
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💅 RINK(1) — like, the rink manual, bestie ✨

okay so this is rink, from the Rink Manual obviously, and she is that girl: a unit calculator and dimensional analysis tool. genuinely iconic. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

rink — unit calculator and dimensional analysis tool 🧮💖

🌸 SYNPOSIS 🌸

lowkey just the vibes of how you call her:

rink
rink [EXPR]...
rink -f <FILE>
rink (-h | -V | --config-path)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So rink is a unit conversion and calculation tool, and the range is everything: she'll do your tiny little simple arithmetic when you're being lazy, and she'll also do the whole complex dimensionality analysis thing and other tasks. both. no cap. she contains multitudes. 💅✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

every single flag, bestie, we're not skipping any:

  • --config-path — prints a path to the config file, then dips. that's it, that's the whole job. 🫶
  • --fetch-currency — goes and fetches the latest version of the currency data, then exits. her main character use case is being part of a cron job — possibly together with setting currency.cache_expiration_enabled to false. iykyk. 💸
  • -f, --file <file> — reads expressions from a file, one per line, printing them to stdout, and then exits. batch mode slay. 📄✨
  • -h, --help — prints help information and then exits. hello, she's helping. 😌
  • -V, --version — prints the current version and then exits. know her. 👑

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

Returns 0 unless an error prevented rink from starting up. that's it. if she couldn't even wake up, that's the only L she'll report. 💀

🍓 ENVIRONMENT 🍓

  • NO_COLORS — if it's set to a non-empty string, rink will disable colored text rendering. so if the rainbow is Too Much (rude, but ok), this is your girl. 🌈❌

🧚 FILES 🧚

rink looks for a configuration file in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/rink/config.toml — see rink(5) for the deets. 📝

she also relies on some data files, which are found using a search path. see rink-defs(5) and rink-dates(5). 🔍

and the downloaded currency data gets saved in $XDG_CACHE_DIR/rink/currency.json. 💾💖

🙈 BUGS 🙈

found one? take it here, bestie:

https://codeberg.org/tiffany/rink/issues

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

rink(5), rink(7), rink-defs(5), rink-dates(5) — go read the whole family, they're all slaying. 💜

okay that's the whole page, mwah 🫶 — this was Rink Manual, dated 2026-08-30, and that's the RINK(1) experience, periodt. 🎀✨

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