Shell Programming and Scripting

I log into HPUX as oracle user.

I use sh shell.

Oracle utilities imp ,exp sqlplus has rwxr-x--x privilege

From $ prompt If i type imp it works fine.

But the following fails

$sh imp

Gives :--

/usr/bin/sh imp:

execute permission denied.


If I do the following it works

$sh ( hit enter and go to next line )
imp ( it works )


Question :- How to make

$sh imp ......work

try to use the full pathname of imp
or (for ksh)
ksh "your_home_directory/.profile ; utility"

Simon,

Why is it that you want to use imp or exp with sh?

imp is NOT a shell script. It is an executable created using the libraries under $ORACLE_HOME.

Only shell scripts can be run using the sh <filename> command, not executables.

Code:

# file $ORACLE_HOME/bin/imp
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/imp:    ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped

HTH,

Regards,

Praveen