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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting getting garbage in the output file of shell script Post 302522939 by methyl on Tuesday 17th of May 2011 08:16:17 AM
Old 05-17-2011
Quote:
echo $TABLE >> $LogDir/$LogFileName
This is the main problem line.
The real problem is that you are trying to store a multi-line output from an entire Oracle sqlplus session into an environment variable. The echo ... line is expanding to a very wide line including shell expansion of "**" (from the Oracle error message) which gives a directory list! The line-breaks are lost when you store this sort of output into an Environment Variable and you just get a long list of words.

Purely from a syntax point of view should perhaps be:
Code:
echo "$TABLE" >>  $LogDir/$LogFileName

However Environment Variables are not files. You should not be storing multi-line output into an Environment Variable.
Use an Oracle "spool" command to write your Oracle output to your output file and used shell redirect to write any left-over messages to an error log file.

Ps. The only time I ever see posts showing sqlplus output to an Environment Variable is from India. I suspect that there are some duff course notes in circulation or maybe there is a duff reference book?
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OCI_SET_CLIENT_INFO(3)													    OCI_SET_CLIENT_INFO(3)

oci_set_client_info - Sets the client information

SYNOPSIS
bool oci_set_client_info (resource $connection, string $client_info) DESCRIPTION
Sets the client information for Oracle tracing. The client information is registered with the database when the next 'roundtrip' from PHP to the database occurs, typically when an SQL statement is executed. The client information can subsequently be queried from database administration views such as V$SESSION. The value may be retained across persistent connections. PARAMETERS
o $connection -An Oracle connection identifier, returned by oci_connect(3), oci_pconnect(3), or oci_new_connect(3). o $client_info - User chosen string up to 64 bytes long. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Setting the client information <?php $c = oci_connect('hr', 'welcome', 'localhost/XE'); // Record the client information oci_set_client_info($c, 'My Application Version 2'); // Code that causes a roundtrip, for example a query: $s = oci_parse($c, 'select * from dual'); oci_execute($s); oci_fetch_all($s, $res); sleep(30); ?> // While the script is running, the administrator can see the client // information: sqlplus system/welcome SQL> select client_info from v$session; NOTES
Note Oracle version requirement This function is available when PHP is linked with Oracle Database libraries from version 10 g onwards. Tip Performance With older versions of OCI8 or the Oracle Database, the client information can be set using the Oracle DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO pack- age. This is less efficient than using oci_set_client_info(3). Caution Roundtrip Gotcha Some but not all OCI8 functions cause roundtrips. Roundtrips to the database may not occur with queries when result caching is enabled. SEE ALSO
oci_set_module_name(3), oci_set_action(3), oci_set_client_identifier(3). PHP Documentation Group OCI_SET_CLIENT_INFO(3)
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