Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

[John Conover]

Franco Martelli writes:
> 
> If I want English output of an application I set the environment 
> variable LC_ALL to "C" inline of the command e.g.:
>
.
.
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> 
> So the question is: does anybody know if this syntax works on all shells 
> other than bash? csh, korn, dash, zsh …
> 

Hi Franco.

    egrep ALL .bashrc
    LC_ALL=C

    set | egrep ALL
    LC_ALL=C

    dash
    set | egrep ALL

So, apparently not, (I don't have it set in /etc/profile, which is
read when dash is invoked; initializing in ~/.profile would work,
too. Probably the same in csh, korn, zsh ...)

    John
    
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