-a

Display a list of all available locales. The -v option causes the LC_IDENTIFICATION metadata about each locale to be includedin the output.

-m

Display the available charmaps (character set description files). To display the current character set for the locale, uselocale -c charmap.The locale command can also be provided with one or more arguments, which are the names of locale keywords (for example, date_fmt,ctype-class-names, yesexpr, or decimal_point) or locale categories (for example, LC_CTYPE or LC_TIME). For each argument, the fol‐lowing is displayed:* For a locale keyword, the value of that keyword to be displayed.* For a locale category, the values of all keywords in that category are displayed.When arguments are supplied, the following options are meaningful:

-c

For a category name argument, write the name of the locale category on a separate line preceding the list of keyword valuesfor that category.For a keyword name argument, write the name of the locale category for this keyword on a separate line preceding the keywordvalue.This option improves readability when multiple name arguments are specified. It can be combined with the -k option.

-k

For each keyword whose value is being displayed, include also the name of that keyword, so that the output has the format:keyword="value"The locale command also knows about the following options:

-v

Display additional information for some command-line option and argument combinations.

-?

Display a summary of command-line options and arguments and exit.

--usage

Display a short usage message and exit.

-V

Display the program version and exit.FILES/usr/lib/locale/locale-archiveUsual default locale archive location./usr/share/i18n/localesUsual default path for locale definition files.CONFORMING TOPOSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.EXAMPLE$ localeLANG=en_US.UTF-8LC_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=$ locale date_fmt%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y$ locale -k date_fmtdate_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"$ locale -ck date_fmtLC_TIMEdate_fmt="%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"$ locale LC_TELEPHONE+%c (%a) %l(%a) %l111UTF-8$ locale -k LC_TELEPHONEtel_int_fmt="+%c (%a) %l"tel_dom_fmt="(%a) %l"int_select="11"int_prefix="1"telephone-codeset="UTF-8"The following example compiles a custom locale from the ./wrk directory with the localedef(1) utility under the $HOME/.locale direc‐tory, then tests the result with the date(1) command, and then sets the environment variables LOCPATH and LANG in the shell profilefile so that the custom locale will be used in the subsequent user sessions:$ mkdir -p $HOME/.locale$ I18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8$ LOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF-8 date$ echo "export LOCPATH=\$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc$ echo "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc