Start several processes within same shell but with different language settings

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ALL

Issue

  • Is there a possibility to start several processes inside the same bash or sh shell, but to specify for each process different Language setting ?
  • For example: one process need DE lang and other US lang ?

Resolution

  • Yes, It is possible.
  • Refer below example
Setup the DE & HK language on same bash which has LANG set to US. 

[manish@vm10 ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

FOR DE Language :

[manish@vm10 ~]$ more deutch.sh 
#!/bin/bash

LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
echo "hello test for language"

data=`locale` ;

printf "$data \n"
[manish@vm10 ~]$ ./deutch.sh 
hello test for language
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[manish@vm10 ~]$ 
[manish@vm10 ~]$ 

FOR HK Langauge :

[manish@vm10 ~]$ more hongkong.sh 
#!/bin/bash

LANG="zh_HK.UTF-8"
echo "hello test for language"

data=`locale` ;

printf "$data \n"
[manish@vm10 ~]$ ./hongkong.sh 
hello test for language
LANG=zh_HK.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_HK.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[manish@vm10 ~]$ 
[manish@vm10 ~]$

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