Glen Snyder wrote: > Does anyone have an example of a bash script that would use setlocale to > temporarily call on LC_NUMERIC to output comma decimals (and then switch > back to the dot for the decimals afterwards)? Question: Is it one single program that needs to both read *and* write different formats at the same time? Or is it two different programs. Hopefully two different programs. Set one locale for one program reading data in one format and set another locale for the other program writing the data so it will write in a different format. The LC_NUMERIC environment variable can be set on the command line like any variable can be. In that syntax it only takes effect for the current command. Example assuming List a directory using your default locale. ls List a directory using POSIX standard locale. LC_ALL=POSIX ls List a directory using the en_US locale (assuming you have installed it). Note that in this case you get dictionary sort order with case folded and punctuation ignored. (Blech, but that is another story.) LC_ALL=en_US ls Therefore you could put something like this in your script. LC_NUMERIC=your_desired_locale yourprogram All of the normal redirects and pipes work. Therefore you could do something like this. program1 | LC_NUMERIC=your_desired_locale program2 | program3 Sorry for the vagueness of this suggestion. But you did not say enough to grip the problem firmly. But perhaps this will be enough. Bob
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