Question:
I would like to create a shell script that will display an SLA [Software
License Agreement] in the appropriate locale - provided the translated
SLA is available.
The user would have to agree with the SLA before continuing.
Do you have any samples or advice on how to create this?
Answer:
There are a number freely available scripts under various kinds of open source licenses.
However, it's quite possible that the use of such source code may not be what you want.
Below are some alternatives.
If you plan to store the localized Software License Agreements in
gettext MO files, then please see
gettext(1),
msgfmt(1), and
gettext(3C)
man pages on how to retrieve the translated messages, and also on how to
build and place the MO (Message Object) files.
However, if you are looking for a simpler mechanism for a shell script
to choose a localized SLA file based on the current locale setting,
then, an option is to:
- Save your localized SLA files in a location as
<filename>.<locale>
where <locale> is the value of the:
# locale | grep LC_CTYPE | cut -f2 -d\"
- Then, in a shell script, find out the locale name with the above
approach and pick up the localized SLA file and show the file.
* Note that if any of the locale category environment variables is
explicitly set then there will be no quote characters in the line(s).
In other words, ' " ' means it is implicitly set by other environment variables.
Something like the following will catch both possibilities:
#!/bin/csh
locale | grep LC_CTYPE=\" > /dev/null
if ($status == 0) then
set lc=`locale | grep LC_CTYPE | cut -f2 -d\"`
else
set lc=`locale | grep LC_CTYPE | cut -f2 -d=`
endif
if (X"$lc" == X"") set lc='C'
echo $lc
