On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 08:06:50PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > That works with Mac OS X, where the output of locale(1) is a series of > shell assignment statements with quoted values; your mileage may vary, of > course.
POSIX <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/locale.html> defines the format. LANG is unquoted, and other values are either quoted or unquoted depending on whether they are explicitly set in the environment, or derived. Sounds pretty unsafe to eval, to me. imadev:~$ locale LANG=en_US.iso88591 LC_CTYPE="en_US.iso88591" LC_COLLATE="en_US.iso88591" LC_MONETARY="en_US.iso88591" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.iso88591" LC_TIME=POSIX LC_MESSAGES="en_US.iso88591" LC_ALL= imadev:~$ LC_CTYPE='$(date +%Y%m%d)' locale Warning! One or more of your selected locales are not available. Please invoke the commands "locale" and "locale -a" to verify your selections and the available locales. Continuing processing using the "C" locale. LANG=en_US.iso88591 LC_CTYPE=$(date +%Y%m%d) LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME=POSIX LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_ALL=
