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- From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Colors and locale warning
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:03:34 +0200
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:35:23AM +0200, Vladim?r Marek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to warn when parsing output of external programs in
> sorcery, that they may be in different language, or setting.
>
> I casted bash-completion and it was pharting on me bad, with messages
> like "/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libapi no such file or directory". The
> problem was, that 'ls' is actually 'alias ls="ls --color"' and so that
> sorcery had line:
>
> for MODULE in `ls $SGL_LIBRARY_MODULES/lib*[^~]`; do
That's very bad anyway, using for SOMETHING in `ls ...` can break in so
many ways ...
Why not just
for MODULE in "$SGL_LIBRARY_MODULES"/lib*[^~]; do
That will even work if SGL_LIBRARY_MODULES contains spaces or other
crap.
> which don't play nice with colors (I allready fixed it in p4).
>
> Similar may happen if you rely on command outputting text in english,
> and user has LANG or LC_whatever set to his own locale.
>
> If I am not wrong, executing binary like
>
> LC_ALL=C whatever
>
> restores all the locales to default, since it overrides all other LC_*
>
> --
> Neuron
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-
[SM-Discuss] Colors and locale warning,
Vladimír Marek, 05/17/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Colors and locale warning,
Arwed von Merkatz, 05/17/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Colors and locale warning, Eric Schabell, 05/17/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Colors and locale warning, Vladimír Marek, 05/17/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Colors and locale warning,
Andrew, 05/17/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Colors and locale warning, Eric Sandall, 05/17/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Colors and locale warning,
Arwed von Merkatz, 05/17/2004
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