into bits for conversions

Convert value to a binary primitive.

Signature

> into bits ...rest

Parameters

• ...rest: for a data structure input, convert data at the given cell paths

Input/output types:

input	output
binary	string
bool	string
datetime	string
duration	string
filesize	string
int	string
record	record
string	string
table	table

Examples

convert a binary value into a string, padded to 8 places with 0s

> 01b | into bits
00000001

convert an int into a string, padded to 8 places with 0s

> 1 | into bits
00000001

convert a filesize value into a string, padded to 8 places with 0s

> 1b | into bits
00000001

convert a duration value into a string, padded to 8 places with 0s

> 1ns | into bits
00000001

convert a boolean value into a string, padded to 8 places with 0s

> true | into bits
00000001

convert a datetime value into a string, padded to 8 places with 0s

> 2023-04-17T01:02:03 | into bits
01001101 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000001 01110000 01110010 00100000 00110001 00110111 00100000 00110000 00110001 00111010 00110000 00110010 00111010 00110000 00110011 00100000 00110010 00110000 00110010 00110011

convert a string into a raw binary string, padded with 0s to 8 places

> 'nushell.sh' | into bits
01101110 01110101 01110011 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101110 01110011 01101000

Tips: Command into bits was not included in the official binaries by default, you have to build it with --features=extra flag