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LOCALE(1)		   Linux Programmer's 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 set‐
       tings  for  each locale category (see locale(5)), based on the settings
       of the environment variables that control the locale (see locale(7)).

       If either the -a or the -m option (or one of their long-format  equiva‐
       lents) 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).

       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 exam‐
       ple,  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 cate‐
	      gory on a separate line preceding the list of keyword values for
	      that category.

	      For  a keyword name argument, write the name of the locale cate‐
	      gory 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.

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_MESSAGES
       ^[yY].*
       ^[nN].*
       Yes
       No
       UTF-8

       $ locale -k LC_MESSAGES
       yesexpr="^[yY].*"
       noexpr="^[nN].*"
       yesstr="Yes"
       nostr="No"
       messages-codeset="UTF-8"

SEE ALSO
       locale(5), locale(7)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.65 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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