Hi, On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 10:12:14AM +0100, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: > Why is LANG=C useful when scripting ?
Anselm and others did already explain why it is useful. But I want to mention that it's not the only environment variable used for localization by many tools on modern linux systems. Example: $ cmp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd- cmp: EOF auf /etc/passwd-. $ LANG=C cmp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd- cmp: EOF auf /etc/passwd-. $ LANG=C LC_ALL=C cmp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd- cmp: EOF on /etc/passwd- LC_* vars are explained at http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/envvar.html Frank _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list lpi-discuss@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
