Decimal separator

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/12/24 blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com>

> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > In a terminal (bash), is there something that I can type that gives me
> the
> > current decimal separator?
> >
> > For instance, if Swedish locale:
> >
> > $ echo "Current decimal separator: ${SomeVariable}"
> > Current decimal separator: ,
> > $
> >
> >
> > Johnny Rosenberg
>
> Current for what?  You could have different separators used
> for "ls" and "df".
>

I need to know what character will appear if I hit the decimal button on
the numerical (built-in) keypad. In my case it's a coma, since coma is the
Swedish decimal separator.



Johnny Rosenberg


>
> You could grep various "locale" files or pipe the output of "env"
> through "grep", but some variable that you want might not be defined.
>
> I have this;
> psd at PPlive:~$ env | grep BLOCK
> BLOCK_SIZE='1
> DF_BLOCK_SIZE='M
> psd at PPlive:~$ df .
> Filesystem     1M-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3        37,420M 30,280M    5,234M  86% /home
> psd at PPlive:~$
>
> That translates as, most commands have a comma as a thousands
> separator and units of one byte, but "df" uses units of MB.
>
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