how to have temporary english_US bash output?

**pier_andreit** · 02-Mar-2014, 05:46

In my opensuse 13.1 with kde 4.11.5 system language=italian, I would like to have bash output in english_US only for one command, not forever, how can I get this??
I tried all these but without success:

Code:

eros@suse2-share1:~> LANG=en_US plasma-desktop --version
Qt: 4.8.5
Piattaforma di sviluppo KDE: 4.11.5
Shell del desktop di Plasma: 4.11.5
eros@suse2-share1:~> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 plasma-desktop --version
Qt: 4.8.5
Piattaforma di sviluppo KDE: 4.11.5
Shell del desktop di Plasma: 4.11.5
eros@suse2-share1:~> echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
eros@suse2-share1:~> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 plasma-desktop --version
Qt: 4.8.5
Piattaforma di sviluppo KDE: 4.11.5
Shell del desktop di Plasma: 4.11.5
eros@suse2-share1:~> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8; plasma-desktop --version
Qt: 4.8.5
Piattaforma di sviluppo KDE: 4.11.5
Shell del desktop di Plasma: 4.11.5
eros@suse2-share1:~>

I would like to have this output for the above command:

Code:

procuste@suse2-share1:~> plasma-desktop --version
Qt: 4.8.5
KDE Development Platform: 4.11.5
Plasma Desktop Shell: 4.11.5
procuste@suse2-share1:~>

but without changing the italian language for the whole system

manythanx, :-) ciao :-) pier

**hcvv** · 02-Mar-2014, 06:44

The most easy wayy to have one command you type seeing the environment variable LANG= is preceding the command with it:

Code:

LANG=C command

Instead of C you could use en_US, but I ind C easier to type.

Example:

Code:

henk@boven:~> df -h
Bestandssysteem Grootte Gebruikt Besch Geb% Aangekoppeld op
/dev/sda2           20G     5,2G   14G  28% /
devtmpfs           987M      40K  987M   1% /dev
tmpfs              999M      84K  999M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs              999M     3,4M  996M   1% /run
tmpfs              999M        0  999M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs              999M     3,4M  996M   1% /var/run
tmpfs              999M     3,4M  996M   1% /var/lock
/dev/sda3           92G      51G   40G  57% /home
/dev/sda5           20G     5,3G   14G  29% /mnt/B
/dev/sda6           99G      68G   26G  73% /mnt/B/home
henk@boven:~> LANG=C df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2        20G  5.2G   14G  28% /
devtmpfs        987M   40K  987M   1% /dev
tmpfs           999M   84K  999M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           999M  3.4M  996M   1% /run
tmpfs           999M     0  999M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           999M  3.4M  996M   1% /var/run
tmpfs           999M  3.4M  996M   1% /var/lock
/dev/sda3        92G   51G   40G  57% /home
/dev/sda5        20G  5.3G   14G  29% /mnt/B
/dev/sda6        99G   68G   26G  73% /mnt/B/home