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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting isql query in unix shell script Post 302145342 by jaydeep_sadaria on Wednesday 14th of November 2007 01:26:30 AM
Old 11-14-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by porter
Do you mean

Code:
#!/bin/sh

isql -U -P <<EOF
use gdb_1
go
select count (\*) from table_x
go
EOF

what does mean by <<EOF and EOF at last statement.
 

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isql

isql(1) 							UnixODBC Reference							   isql(1)

NAME

       isql - utility to submit SQL queries to a data source.
       iusql - Unicode version of isql.

SYNOPSIS

       isql DSN [UID [PWD]] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       isql can be used to submit SQL to a data source and to format/output results.  It can be used in batch or interactive mode.

OPTIONS

       DSN    Name of the data source you want to connect to.

       UID    Your login to connect the DSN.

       PWD    Your password needed to login to the DSN.

       -b     Batch mode.  It will not do any prompting.

       -dx    Delimit columns with x.

       -x0xXX Delimit columns with XX, where XX is in hex.  For example -x0x09 will use a tab.

       -w     Wrap results in an HTML table

       -c     Print column names on first row.	This options only has effect in combination with the -d option.

       -mn    Limit column display width to n

       -v     Verbose output.

       --version
	      This prints the version.

EXAMPLES

       cat My.sql | isql WebDB MyID MyPWD -w
	      Each line in My.sql must contain exactly 1 SQL command except for the last line which must be blank.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> for the Debian package of unixODBC.

UnixODBC							     Dec 2004								   isql(1)
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