On 09/30/2014 11:53 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I recently debugged this. I share my home directory from a NetApp filer > such that I can use it from Cygwin or the various Linux machines at my > client (largely CentOS). Recently I started seeing: > > Adefaria-lt:ssh cm-db-ltest01 > locale: invalid option -- 'u' > Try `locale --help' or `locale --usage' for more information. > Cm-db-test01: > > Hunting this down I found that I have a ~/.profile now (didn't have one > before) and contained therein is the following: > > # Set user-defined locale > export LANG=$(locale -uU)
Sounds like cygwin's base-files should be updated to guard cygwin-specific .profile contents to only occur when uname says it is running on cygwin. I'm sure the maintainer would love patches... > > Turns out that on CentOS locale doesn't support -uU. Now this .profile > came from a refreshing of Cygwin. How best to handle this... You can guard that with something as simple as: case $(uname) in CYGWIN*) export LANG=$(locale -uU) ;; esac (hmm, the moment you also share the .profile with a Solaris box, you'd have to use `` instead of $(), but that's another story) -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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