[SOLVED] Bash+crontab output is in different language

jmvidalvia · 04-05-2011, 05:54 AM

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!

Guttorm · 04-05-2011, 07:28 AM

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.

jmvidalvia · 04-06-2011, 01:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guttorm

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.

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..

Guttorm · 04-06-2011, 02:55 AM

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.

jmvidalvia · 04-06-2011, 04:37 AM

That was great: thanks a lot!