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Bash+crontab output is in different language

Hi!
I am running this script, that sets the begining and end of a period:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

MES=`head -n 1 /home/jm/Dropbox/par/mes`

YR=`head -n 1 /home/jm/Dropbox/par/yr`

MES_NUM=`date +"%m"`

MES_TXT=`date -d "$YR-$MES-01" +%^b`

HOY=`date +"%d-%^b-%Y"`

INI=`date +"01-$MES_TXT-$YR"`

ULT=`echo $(cal $MES $YR) | awk '{print $NF}'`



if [ "$MES" = "$MES_NUM" ]

then FIN=$HOY

else FIN=`date +"$ULT-$MES_TXT-$YR"`

fi



echo $INI > /home/jm/sh/mysql/ini

echo $FIN > /home/jm/sh/mysql/fin

If I run it by myself, the variables INI and FIN are created in spanish, which I need, eg 01-ABR-2011.
But, when I run the script through crontab (obviously with the same user), the output is created in english!, eg 01-APR-2011.
My locale are set as follows,

Code:

LANG=es_ES.UTF-8

LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"

LC_ALL=

Is there anything I am missing?
Thanks!

Hi

Cron doesn't read the files where the locale is set. Why not simply copy all that locale stuff to the beginning of your script? If a script needs a specific locale to work properly, I think the script should set it, and not rely on some other system settings.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guttorm (Post 4314474)

Thanks Guttorm,
I am afraid it didn't work: adding my locale into the script doesn't change the output, which is still in english..
:(

Hi

I think you will need to use export in the script. I just made this little script and put it in cron:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8

date >/tmp/date.spanish

After letting it run, the file "/tmp/date.spanish" was in Spanish.

That was great: thanks a lot!