UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all,
Is there any command in unix equivalent to setlocal in windows.
setlocal command is really useful in restoring local environment variables in windows.
Thanks,
Sonal.

"man setlocale"

But this is some kind of c library function. I want to use this in shell script.

Code:

export LC_ALL=POSIX

resets all of the locale settings to POSIX. The default setting is usually POSIX or C

locale settings are controlled by changing the set of locale envrionment variables:

Code:

LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"

modifying variable ( locale ) LANG

controls other locale variables as well

Looking at the Microsoft documentation

Setlocal creates a local scope and endlocal terminates the local scope. Any changes made within the setlocal and endlocal scope are discarded, thereby leaving the original environment unchanged. You can nest these two commands to a maximum of 32 levels. For more information about the setlocal and endlocal commands, see Setlocal and Endlocal

I think the closest equivalent effect can be created by spawning a subshell using ( ... ).

Code:

$ cat a.sh
A=OUTER
echo $A
(
A=INNER
echo $A
)
echo $A
$ ksh a.sh
OUTER
INNER
OUTER

In unix where the locale variables are defined.

How the LC_ALL is being referred.

Plz throw light on this.