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25 .TH LOCALE 1 2014-03-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
27 locale \- get locale-specific information
30 .BR locale " [OPTION]"
31 .BR locale " [OPTION] \-a"
32 .BR locale " [OPTION] \-m"
33 .BR locale " [OPTION] NAME..."
38 command displays information about the current locale, or all locales,
41 When invoked without arguments,
43 displays the current locale settings for each locale category (see
45 based on the settings of the environment variables that control the locale
53 option (or one of their long-format equivalents) is specified,
54 the behavior is as follows:
56 .BR \-a ", " \-\-all\-locales
57 Display a list of all available locales.
62 metadata about each locale to be included in the output.
64 .BR \-m ", " \-\-charmaps
65 Display the available charmaps (character set description files).
69 command can also be provided with one or more arguments,
70 which are the names of locale keywords (for example,
72 .IR ctype-class-names ,
76 or locale categories (for example,
80 For each argument, the following is displayed:
82 For a locale keyword, the value of that keyword to be displayed.
84 For a locale category,
85 the values of all keywords in that category are displayed.
87 When arguments are supplied, the following options are meaningful:
89 .BR \-c ", " \-\-category\-name
90 For a category name argument,
91 write the name of the locale category
92 on a separate line preceding the list of keyword values for that category.
94 For a keyword name argument,
95 write the name of the locale category for this keyword
96 on a separate line preceding the keyword value.
98 This option improves readability when multiple name arguments are specified.
99 It can be combined with the
103 .BR \-k ", " \-\-keyword\-name
104 For each keyword whose value is being displayed,
105 include also the name of that keyword,
106 so that the output has the format:
108 \fIkeyword\fP="\fIvalue\fP"
112 command also knows about the following options:
114 .BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
115 Display additional information for some command-line option and argument
118 .BR \-? ", " \-\-help
119 Display a summary of command-line options and arguments and exit.
122 Display a short usage message and exit.
124 .BR \-V ", " \-\-version
125 Display the program version and exit.
127 POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008
132 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF\-8"
133 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF\-8"
134 LC_TIME="en_US.UTF\-8"
135 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF\-8"
136 LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF\-8"
137 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF\-8"
138 LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF\-8"
139 LC_NAME="en_US.UTF\-8"
140 LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF\-8"
141 LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF\-8"
142 LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF\-8"
143 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF\-8"
146 $ \fBlocale date_fmt\fP
147 %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
149 $ \fBlocale \-k date_fmt\fP
150 date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
152 $ \fBlocale \-ck date_fmt\fP
154 date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"
156 $ \fBlocale LC_MESSAGES\fP
163 $ \fBlocale \-k LC_MESSAGES\fP
168 messages\-codeset="UTF\-8"
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