Find the geographical location within a shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I need a shell script that when run should be able to find the geographical location of the system.

can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,
Sundeep

2

Do you mean locale - UNIX is not a gps, so it cannot give you a lat/long position of itself.

See man locale

This hows the "C" (default) locale

/home/jmcnama> locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=