Decimal separator

[blind Pete]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> 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.

My mistake.  I thought that the "'" meant "use a comma".  It 
actually means "use the thousands serarator described in 
LC_NUMERIC".  

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blind Pete
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