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I'd like to know how I can change my shell language (not the OS) to english. The language I have in my OS windows is German (Switzerland).

Answer: I've put export LC_ALL=C into the hidden ~/.bashrc file as some suggested. This solved my problem.

empedokles
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  • @Jacob Vlijm: Afaik I don't have two languages. The menus and everything are German. – empedokles Dec 25 '15 at 10:42
  • you can make the settings permanent by putting `export LC_ALL=C` at the bottom of `.bashrc` file – Alex Jones Dec 25 '15 at 10:57
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    @kos Pity! It wasn't an answer. If it was, you'd get another upvotes ;) – Tung Tran Dec 25 '15 at 10:57
  • edward torvalds: What is a .bashrc file? Please provide a full answer. Thanks. – empedokles Dec 25 '15 at 11:06
  • @empedokles: put `export LC_ALL=C` at the end of `~/.bashrc`, which is a hidden text file named `.bashrc` in your home directory. To see it, open your home directory in Files and hit CTRL+H. Save, exit and then fire up a terminal. Everything should be in English. After that, if that solved your problem, please agree with the closure of the question by clicking the button "Yes, that solved my problem!". – kos Dec 25 '15 at 11:12
  • kos: That didn't help, it may consider other parts of the shell, but "git" is still in German, if I use "git push .... etc (the provided link doesn't contain the helpful information about the .bashrc btw.). – empedokles Dec 25 '15 at 11:19
  • Ok, please edit you question and explain that you tried this and that it didn't work for `git`. Maybe also change the title to explain that the problem is mostly related to `git` since `export LC_ALL=C` at least partially solved the problem. – kos Dec 25 '15 at 11:21
  • I found this: http://askubuntu.com/q/320661/380067. The first answer applies only to `git`, the second one applies to all executables relying on `LANG` (hence also e.g. to `date`). – kos Dec 25 '15 at 11:30
  • I think even the first answer solved it, but it didn't until I restarted the shell. ;-) – empedokles Dec 25 '15 at 11:45
  • Can you figure out which one of the two solved it? E.g. remove the line from the second question and restart the shell, so that I know what to vote for. :) Or flag your question yourself, it's the same. – kos Dec 25 '15 at 11:47
  • @kos: The one writen in my question above. – empedokles Dec 26 '15 at 12:46

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