fluids-sh

fluid.sh is a shell script which utilized wget to acquire fluid properties from the NIST Chemistry WebBook in a format suitable for further processing with shell scripts or e.g. xmgrace. It supports the full functionality provided by the website!

The script takes the same input as command line arguments you need to enter on the web forms. It produces a ASCII text file containing the respective data points in columns headed by a well readable description. The advantage is that you do not need to "click" through three web pages and export the result - you can do it with one command in the shell! This makes it possible to introduce it in shell scripts to automatize the analysis of other data, to compare or just to save time.