I have a .sh file which acts as an all set for a couple of oracle scripts i want to call. Basically it has 3 variables, the user Id, the password, and the oracle instance to connect to.. the problem is I cant seem to get the connection string format properly.. the program essentially is this:

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SYSTEM_UID=SYSTEM
SYSTEM_PWD=SYSTEM
DATABASE=myDatabase

CREATEUSERCMD="sqlplus ${SYSTEM_UID}/${SYSTEM_PWD}@${DATABASE}"

echo Printing user Id: ${SYSTEM_UID}
echo Printing pwd: ${SYSTEM_PWD}
echo Printing db: ${DATABASE}
echo Printing connection string: ${CREATEUSERCMD}

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Resulting output I get is:

$ bash allset.sh
Printing user Id: SYSTEM
Printing pwd: SYSTEM
Printing db: myDatabase
@myDatabasennection string: sqlplus SYSTEM

Am I resolving those slashes and ampersands incorrectly? Or is there an issue with the way I'm referencing those variables? If I hard code the connection string as:

CREATEUSERCMD='sqlplus SYSTEM/SYSTEM@myDatabase'
and then just call : ${CREATEUSERCMD} it works fine.

Depends on what you are trying to do. For example

will cause the result of your SQL*Plus script to be saved in variable SQL_RESULT. Note the back-ticks. You could then

echo "$SQL_RESULT" to see the result.