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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers passing command arguments from a file? Post 302637129 by vegatripy on Tuesday 8th of May 2012 11:20:40 AM
Old 05-08-2012
passing command arguments from a file?
Hi

Im trying to run zip shell command from an Oracle job, but this has limitations.
This should take a few of explanaition,..
Oracle allows me to execute a command and then I can set up a fixed number of arguments. Ex: (summarizing in something like..):
JOB DEFINITION
job_name: test
job_action: /usr/bin/zip
job_arguments: 4

and then:
JOB test ARGUMENTS
ARGUMENT 1: -j
ARGUMENT 2: foo.zip
ARGUMENT 3: foo01
ARGUMENT 4: foo02
Then oracle execute "zip -j foo.zip foo01 foo02"
But the problem comes when I need an indetermined number of arguments, and cannot use spaces in arguments definitions.
So I was wondering in using something like
JOB DEFINITION
job_name: test
job_action: /bin/sh
job_arguments: 2

and then:
JOB test ARGUMENTS
ARGUMENT 1: -c
ARGUMENT 2: "/usr/bin/zip -j foo.zip foo01 foo02 andwhateverstringiwanttoconcattothis"
This *should* work, but, somehow, not Smilie .

Then I've been wondering if I can write the arguments in a plain text file and then pass arguments from that file.
It must be something like..

$ cat filename-with-args-inside
-j foo.zip foo01 foo02

$ /usr/bin/zip [SHELLOPERATORORWHATEVER] filename-with-args-inside
Is this possible?
How it should be?

I have a lazy remember from my student past that in bash that you could do this with '<<<', like:

$ /usr/bin/zip <<<filename-with-args-inside
..But it doesnt work


Any idea?

Regards

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NAME

       zipmerge - merge zip archives

SYNOPSIS

       zipmerge [-DhIiSsV] target-zip source-zip Op source-zip ...

DESCRIPTION

       zipmerge  merges  the  source zip archives source-zip into the target zip archive target-zip.  By default, files in the source zip archives
       overwrite existing files of the same name in the target zip archive.

       Supported options:

	      -D   Ignore directory components in file name comparisons.

	      -h   Display a short help message and exit.

	      -I   Ignore case in file name comparisons

	      -i   Ask before overwriting files.  See also -s.

	      -S   Do not overwrite files that have the same size and CRC32 in both the source and target archives.

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EXIT STATUS

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SEE ALSO

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AUTHORS

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