locale -uU in ~/.profile

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 9/30/2014 1:12 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/30/2014 11:53 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> I recently debugged this. I share my home directory from a NetApp filer
>> such that I can use it from Cygwin or the various Linux machines at my
>> client (largely CentOS). Recently I started seeing:
>>
>> Adefaria-lt:ssh cm-db-ltest01
>> locale: invalid option -- 'u'
>> Try `locale --help' or `locale --usage' for more information.
>> Cm-db-test01:
>>
>> Hunting this down I found that I have a ~/.profile now (didn't have one
>> before) and contained therein is the following:
>>
>> # Set user-defined locale
>> export LANG=$(locale -uU)
>
> Sounds like cygwin's base-files should be updated to guard
> cygwin-specific .profile contents to only occur when uname says it is
> running on cygwin.  I'm sure the maintainer would love patches...
>
>>
>> Turns out that on CentOS locale doesn't support -uU. Now this .profile
>> came from a refreshing of Cygwin. How best to handle this...
>
> You can guard that with something as simple as:
>
> case $(uname) in
>    CYGWIN*) export LANG=$(locale -uU) ;;
> esac
>
> (hmm, the moment you also share the .profile with a Solaris box, you'd
> have to use `` instead of $(), but that's another story)
>

Is Solaris still that backward?!? I haven't been on a Solaris box for 
quite some time. Life's been good...
-- 
Andrew DeFaria
http://defaria.com


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