locale - get locale-specific information
locale [-a | -m]
locale [-ck] name...
The locale utility writes information about the current locale
environment, or all public locales, to the standard output. For the purposes
of this section, a public locale is one provided by the implementation
that is accessible to the application.
When locale is invoked without any arguments, it summarizes
the current locale environment for each locale category as determined by the
settings of the environment variables.
When invoked with operands, it writes values that have been
assigned to the keywords in the locale categories, as follows:
- o
- Specifying a keyword name selects the named keyword and the category
containing that keyword.
- o
- Specifying a category name selects the named category and all keywords in
that category.
The following options are supported:
-a
Writes information about all available public locales.
The available locales include POSIX, representing the POSIX
locale.
-c
Writes the names of selected locale categories. The
-c option increases readability when more than one category is selected
(for example, via more than one keyword name or via a category name). It is
valid both with and without the -k option.
-k
Writes the names and values of selected keywords. The
implementation may omit values for some keywords; see OPERANDS.
-m
The following operand is supported:
name
The name of a locale category, the name of a keyword in a
locale category, or the reserved name charmap. The named category or
keyword will be selected for output. If a single name represents both a
locale category name and a keyword name in the current locale, the results are
unspecified; otherwise, both category and keyword names can be specified as
name operands, in any sequence.
Example 1 Examples of the locale utility
In the following examples, the assumption is that locale
environment variables are set as follows:
LANG=locale_x LC_COLLATE=locale_y
The command locale would result in the following
output:
LANG=locale_x
LC_CTYPE="locale_x"
LC_NUMERIC="locale_x"
LC_TIME="locale_x"
LC_COLLATE=locale_y
LC_MONETARY="locale_x"
LC_MESSAGES="locale_x"
LC_ALL=
The command
LC_ALL=POSIX locale -ck decimal_point
would produce:
LC_NUMERIC
decimal_point="."
The following command shows an application of locale to
determine whether a user-supplied response is affirmative:
if printf "%s\n" "$response" | /usr/bin/grep -Eq\
"$(locale yesexpr)"
then
affirmative processing goes here
else
non-affirmative processing goes here
fi
See environ(7) for the descriptions of LANG, LC_ALL,
LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
The LANG, LC_*, and NLSPATH environment
variables must specify the current locale environment to be written out.
These environment variables will be used if the -a option is not
specified.
The following exit values are returned:
0
All the requested information was found and output
successfully.
>0
An error occurred.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE
TYPE |
ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| CSI |
Enabled |
| Interface Stability |
Standard |
If LC_CTYPE or keywords in the category LC_CTYPE are specified,
only the values in the range 0x00-0x7f are written out.
If LC_COLLATE or keywords in the category LC_COLLATE
are specified, no actual values are written out.