Martin Probst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just encountered a strange behaviour of the "sleep" tool. If the > language is set to German via something like LANG="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it > gives localized messages which is ok. But it also expects numbers to > come in the localized format which means for German that fractions > have to be written like "0,5" and not "0.5". This might seem correct, > but it breakes a lot of scripts which are usually written for > English/American locales.
Thanks for reporting that. However, it's not a problem with sleep. Sleep should accept numbers in the locale specified by the user. Scripts that invoke sleep with numbers containing a `.' should first set the environment variable LC_NUMERIC to `C'. E.g., in a Bourne shell script, LC_NUMERIC=C sleep 0.5 In the mean time, you can work around this by setting LC_NUMERIC=C in your own environment. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
