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Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

From Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?
Date 2024-02-13 23:00 +0100
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> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 09:47:38PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote:
>> ~# LC_ALL=C apt install
>> [... works on ...] all shells other than bash? csh, korn, dash, zsh ...

* Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> [24-02/13=Tu 15:59 -0500]:
> [...] all the Bourne family shells [...]
>
> In csh, you need to use env.  Like this:
>
>     % env LC_ALL=C apt install
>
> This works in all shells, at the cost of being slightly less efficient.

* Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> [24-02/13=Tu 22:04 +0100]:
> No, ( setenv var something ; command ) works with csh.

What Greg posted also works, because it's an
invocation of the 'env' command, not csh syntax.

What you posted also works, but it runs the command in a subshell of
csh, so I doubt it gains efficiency over running the command under env.

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Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-02-13 21:50 +0100
  Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-13 22:00 +0100
    Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-13 22:10 +0100
      Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2024-02-13 23:00 +0100
        Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-13 23:30 +0100
          Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-02-14 17:20 +0100
            Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-14 17:20 +0100
              Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-02-14 17:40 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-14 17:50 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-02-14 21:50 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-14 22:00 +0100
            Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 03:30 +0100
              Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 21:20 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 03:10 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 17:40 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-16 17:50 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-16 19:30 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 22:30 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-17 04:20 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-02-16 03:40 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 04:10 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2024-02-16 08:20 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-16 13:20 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 17:40 +0100
  Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-13 22:00 +0100
  Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-13 22:30 +0100
  Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? conover@panix.com (John Conover) - 2024-02-13 22:30 +0100
    Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-13 22:50 +0100
      Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-13 23:50 +0100
        Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-14 00:00 +0100
        Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Gremlin <scott-andrews@columbus.rr.com> - 2024-02-14 01:40 +0100
          Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-02-14 01:50 +0100
          Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Gremlin <scott-andrews@columbus.rr.com> - 2024-02-14 02:00 +0100
            Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-14 02:20 +0100
            Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-14 03:30 +0100
              Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Gremlin <scott-andrews@columbus.rr.com> - 2024-02-14 03:50 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-14 04:20 +0100
                Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Gremlin <scott-andrews@columbus.rr.com> - 2024-02-14 11:30 +0100
      Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells? Gremlin <scott-andrews@columbus.rr.com> - 2024-02-13 23:50 +0100

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