locale(1)

1locale(1)                   General Commands Manual                  locale(1)
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NAME

6       locale - get locale-specific information
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SYNOPSIS

9       locale [option]
10       locale [option] -a
11       locale [option] -m
12       locale [option] name...
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DESCRIPTION

15       The  locale  command  displays information about the current locale, or
16       all locales, on standard output.
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18       When invoked without arguments, locale displays the current locale set‐
19       tings  for  each locale category (see locale(5)), based on the settings
20       of the environment variables that control the locale  (see  locale(7)).
21       Values  for variables set in the environment are printed without double
22       quotes, implied values are printed with double quotes.
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24       If either the -a or the -m option (or one of their long-format  equiva‐
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27       -a, --all-locales
28              Display  a  list of all available locales.  The -v option causes
29              the LC_IDENTIFICATION metadata about each locale to be  included
30              in the output.
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32       -m, --charmaps
33              Display   the  available  charmaps  (character  set  description
34              files).  To display the current character set  for  the  locale,
35              use locale -c charmap.
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37       The  locale  command  can  also be provided with one or more arguments,
38       which  are  the  names  of  locale  keywords  (for  example,  date_fmt,
39       ctype-class-names, yesexpr, or decimal_point) or locale categories (for
40       example, LC_CTYPE or LC_TIME).  For each  argument,  the  following  is
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43       •  For a locale keyword, the value of that keyword to be displayed.
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48       When arguments are supplied, the following options are meaningful:
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50       -c, --category-name
51              For a category name argument, write the name of the locale cate‐
52              gory on a separate line preceding the list of keyword values for
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55              For a keyword name argument, write the name of the locale  cate‐
56              gory  for  this keyword on a separate line preceding the keyword
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59              This option improves readability when  multiple  name  arguments
60              are specified.  It can be combined with the -k option.
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62       -k, --keyword-name
63              For  each  keyword  whose value is being displayed, include also
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68       The locale command also knows about the following options:
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71              Display additional information for some command-line option  and
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74       -?, --help
75              Display  a  summary  of  command-line  options and arguments and
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78       --usage
79              Display a short usage message and exit.
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82              Display the program version and exit.
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FILES

85       /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
86              Usual default locale archive location.
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88       /usr/share/i18n/locales
89              Usual default path for locale definition files.
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STANDARDS

92       POSIX.1-2008.
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HISTORY

95       POSIX.1-2001.
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EXAMPLES

98       $ locale
99       LANG=en_US.UTF-8
100       LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
101       LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
102       LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
103       LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
104       LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
105       LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
106       LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
107       LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
108       LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
109       LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
110       LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
111       LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
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114       $ locale date_fmt
115       %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
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117       $ locale -k date_fmt
118       date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
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120       $ locale -ck date_fmt
121       LC_TIME
122       date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
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124       $ locale LC_TELEPHONE
125       +%c (%a) %l
126       (%a) %l
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128       1
129       UTF-8
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131       $ locale -k LC_TELEPHONE
132       tel_int_fmt="+%c (%a) %l"
133       tel_dom_fmt="(%a) %l"
134       int_select="11"
135       int_prefix="1"
136       telephone-codeset="UTF-8"
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138       The following example compiles a custom locale from the ./wrk directory
139       with  the  localedef(1) utility under the $HOME/.locale directory, then
140       tests the result with the date(1) command, and then sets  the  environ‐
141       ment  variables  LOCPATH and LANG in the shell profile file so that the
142       custom locale will be used in the subsequent user sessions:
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144       $ mkdir -p $HOME/.locale
145       $ I18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8
146       $ LOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF-8 date
147       $ echo "export LOCPATH=\$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc
148       $ echo "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc
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