printf does not work when LC_NUMERIC is using comma instead of dot

[tetrode]

My locale is LC_NUMERIC=de_BE.UTF-8 which is using a comma for decimal places. This causes problems with the printf statement. Solution: put the following line before the printf statement

    export LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"

Mark

[arikogan]

Thanks for the good tip @tetrode

[tetrode]

Another one - my MySQL is not running constantly on my development machine, when it is not running the scripts gives errors.

I solved it as follows. Just before cd $DIR I inserted

#
# only run when mysql is running (mysql user running mysqld)
#
if ! ps auwx | grep ^mysql | grep mysqld > /dev/null ; then
    exit
fi