Solved Can I use export command in script instead of specifying locale on each line?

[CaffeineAddict]

I have multiple lines that look like this for example:

time LC_ALL='C' dos2unix --force --newfile "${WORDLIST}" "${WORDLIST}-unix.lst"

Here I use LC_ALL='C to force command to use "C" locale.

However since I have plenty of such commands it seems redundant to use this method on each line, so I'm considering something like this:

Instead of this:

time LC_ALL='C' command1
time LC_ALL='C' command2
time LC_ALL='C' command3
time LC_ALL='C' command4
time LC_ALL='C' command5

I want this:

export LC_ALL='C

time command1
time command2
time command3
time command4
time command5

Will I achieve same effect with this second approach?
Will export LC_ALL='C apply to all subsequent commands?

Note that this will be inside a shell script.

 

[dos2unix]

You only have to do it once.

#!/bin/bash

export LC_ALL='C'

time command1
time command2
time command3
time command4
time command5

Will include it for every command after that.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Thanks for confirming!

 

[dos2unix]

If you wanted to make sure your variable made it all the way through your script, you could add a...

echo $C

...at the end after all the commands have finished.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Moved to Command Line, where scripting inquiries are stored.

Wizard