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Yeah, maybe there is another way of doing what you want. But you don't describe what you want to do. You have come up with a solution to an unknown problem but it does not work. May be an instance of the xy problem.

El 20 de julio de 2024 15:58:05 CEST, Eliot Moss via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> escribió:
>On 7/20/2024 9:44 AM, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>> Greetings!
>> 
>> I am trying to parse the output of "net use" in a bash script, but hit
>> a roadblock:
>> The output of "net use" changes with the language of the system
>> (English, Danish, French, ...), so parsing becomes nearly impossible
>> 
>> How can I force the language used by "net use" to English, even if the
>> system default language is Danish or French?
>> 
>> Mark
>
>Poking around on the web a little suggests that Windows does not use an
>environment variable like LANG to control the language.  Rather, the relevant
>settings seem to live in the registry.  It seems a little dangerous and
>fragile to me to change the registry and change it back, but that may be the
>only approach unless there's a concept of "change a registry entry for this
>session only" or something like that.
>
>HTH, and I'm more than happy to have someone more knowledgeable expand or
>correct this!
>
>Eliot Moss
>
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