Please pay close attention to how the command was shown to you, including the use of the whitespace:
> > $ LC_MONETARY="en_ZM.utf-8" locale -ck LC_MONETARY > In the terminal, when I use $LC_MONETARY = "en_ZM.utf-8" locale -ck > LC_MONETARY > Cygwin replies "-bash: LC_MONETARY: command not found" The dollar sign in there was the shell prompt; not something you have to type. So, this is basically what and how you should enter it: LC_MONETARY="en_ZM.utf-8" locale -ck LC_MONETARY HTH, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple