Find the geographical location within a shell script

eamani_sun · #1 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008

Hi,

I need a shell script that when run should be able to find the geographical location of the system.

can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,
Sundeep

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008

Do you mean locale - UNIX is not a gps, so it cannot give you a lat/long position of itself.

See man locale

This hows the "C" (default) locale

Code:

/home/jmcnama> locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=

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