locale Command

The “locale” command in Linux is used to display information about the current locale, or to set the locale for the current session.

A locale is a set of parameters that defines the regional and language settings for a user’s environment. It can include things like the character encoding, date and time format, currency symbol, and so on.

Here are a few examples of how the “locale” command can be used:

To display the current locale settings:

$ locale

To display the current settings for a specific category, you can use the option “-k” and category name like this

$ locale -k LC_TIME

To show available locales on your system

$ locale -a

To set a specific locale for the current session

$ export LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8

Here, the “fr_FR.UTF-8” is the locale that should be set. This is for french in France.

To set the locale for a specific category, you can use the command

$ export LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8

This sets the format for Time to French.

To set the locale temporarily, you can use the command

$ env LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 command

Where ‘command’ is the command to be executed with the ‘fr_FR.UTF-8’ locale.

To set the locale permanently, you have to set the LC_* environment variables in the shell profile file like .bashrc, .bash_profile or .zshrc in the home directory of the user.

The locale settings are used by various system utilities, like date, time, and printf to format the output correctly for the user’s environment. It’s important to note that not all locales are available on every system, and not all applications respect the locale settings.

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