LOCALE(1)                                                        Linux User Manual                                                       LOCALE(1)

NAME

       locale - get locale-specific information

SYNOPSIS

       locale [option]
       locale [option] -a
       locale [option] -m
       locale [option] name...

DESCRIPTION

       The locale command displays information about the current locale, or all locales, on standard output.

       When invoked without arguments, locale displays the current locale settings for each locale category (see locale(5)), based on the settings
       of the environment variables that control the locale (see locale(7)).  Values for variables set in the environment are printed without dou-
       ble quotes, implied values are printed with double quotes.

       If either the -a or the -m option (or one of their long-format equivalents) is specified, the behavior is as follows:

       -a, --all-locales
              Display  a  list  of all available locales.  The -v option causes the LC_IDENTIFICATION metadata about each locale to be included in
              the output.

       -m, --charmaps
              Display the available charmaps (character set description files).  To display the current character set for the locale,  use  locale
              -c charmap.

       The  locale  command can also be provided with one or more arguments, which are the names of locale keywords (for example, date_fmt, ctype-
       class-names, yesexpr, or decimal_point) or locale categories (for example, LC_CTYPE or LC_TIME).  For each argument, the following is  dis-
       played:

       *  For a locale keyword, the value of that keyword to be displayed.

       *  For a locale category, the values of all keywords in that category are displayed.

       When arguments are supplied, the following options are meaningful:

       -c, --category-name
              For a category name argument, write the name of the locale category on a separate line preceding the list of keyword values for that
              category.

              For a keyword name argument, write the name of the locale category for this keyword on a separate line preceding the keyword value.

              This option improves readability when multiple name arguments are specified.  It can be combined with the -k option.

       -k, --keyword-name
              For each keyword whose value is being displayed, include also the name of that keyword, so that the output has the format:

                  keyword="value"

       The locale command also knows about the following options:

       -v, --verbose
              Display additional information for some command-line option and argument combinations.

       -?, --help
              Display a summary of command-line options and arguments and exit.

       --usage
              Display a short usage message and exit.

       -V, --version
              Display the program version and exit.

FILES

       /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
              Usual default locale archive location.

       /usr/share/i18n/locales
              Usual default path for locale definition files.

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

EXAMPLE

       $ locale
       LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
       LC_ALL=

       $ locale date_fmt
       %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y

       $ locale -k date_fmt
       date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"

       $ locale -ck date_fmt
       LC_TIME
       date_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"

       $ locale LC_TELEPHONE
       +%c (%a) %l
       (%a) %l
       11
       1
       UTF-8

       $ locale -k LC_TELEPHONE
       tel_int_fmt="+%c (%a) %l"
       tel_dom_fmt="(%a) %l"
       int_select="11"
       int_prefix="1"
       telephone-codeset="UTF-8"

       The following example compiles a custom locale from the ./wrk directory with the localedef(1) utility under  the  $HOME/.locale  directory,
       then  tests the result with the date(1) command, and then sets the environment variables LOCPATH and LANG in the shell profile file so that
       the custom locale will be used in the subsequent user sessions:

       $ mkdir -p $HOME/.locale
       $ I18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8
       $ LOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF-8 date
       $ echo "export LOCPATH=$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc
       $ echo "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc

SEE ALSO

       localedef(1), charmap(5), locale(5), locale(7)

COLOPHON

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Linux                                                               2017-09-15                                                           LOCALE(1)