Thanks all for the help. The code below is doing what I am trying to accomplish. I figure to share this in case it helps someone, and I am open for suggestions for any further tuning
Hmm.
It's cleaner to use a here-document for large multi-line strings.
I'm guessing xargs was to strip off quotes? That's cool. That can be moved outside the loop so it only needs to be run once instead of n times.
It's simple to skip blank lines in the loop instead of editing the temp file with a grep and a mv.
If you're editing the string with awk, don't bother with sed | cut | kitchen | sink -- solve the whole thing in one awk. It'd be nice if we could strip the quotes off too, but xargs really is better at that.
The sed was unnecessary with the code I originally gave you. It split the data on "=" into NAME and VAL. When you got rid of one of those variables you ended up having to do the splitting yourself again, with sed. But never mind, since we need awk, it can do that too.
Hi,
I am calling an oracle function that returns a number (either 0 or 2), how do I pass that pass to the wrapping shell script as I would like to do other things based on the value returned by the oracle function.
Your help will be appreciated.
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hi,
In Oracle Enterprise Linux
I'm not able to redirect output of commands pvscan and vgscan into a file. File is coming blank
Please suggest something
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Hi,
I'm not able to redirect output of ovscan and vgscan commands to a file in Oracle Enterprise Linux.
Please suggest something.
Thanks
Mayank (1 Reply)
hi,
Could anyone tell me how to pass the output values of the PL/SQL procedure to Shell script and how to store that values in a shell script variable...
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i had this unix korn shell code that connects to oracle database and execute the oracle procedure. i need to add a variable that indicates the oracle procedure failed. basically the variable is to check if the oracle procedure failed it will assign 1 and when the variable is equal to 1 it will not... (4 Replies)
Hello,
Could someone please suggest if there is a way to pass an perl array(pass @v_array) to SQL as in below eg :
#!/usr/bin/perl
@v_array = (1,2,4,5,6,8);
$db_userid = 'ni71/ni711';
$bufTPO = qx{ sqlplus -s << EOF
$db_userid
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I am fetching oracle query result in shell variable. As columns numbers are more the output wraps in unix terminal .i.e one complete record in db gets store in multiple lines. with each line ends with $ character. I want to remove these unnecessary $ character but to keep required $... (8 Replies)
Hi All ,
I am trying to pass a value from sqlplus to korn shell .
There is a table tab1 in Oracle that has a column userdate.
I need to pass the userdate to the korn shell . This is what I am doing .
VALUE=`sqlplus -silent username/password << END
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Hi all,
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
Requirement - How to pass oracle sql script as argument to unix shell script?
$ ./output.sh users.sql
Below are the shell scripts and the oracle sql file in the same folder.
Shell Script
$ cat output.sh
#!/bin/bash
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LEARN ABOUT V7
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [ -v "string"] [ pattern template] ... pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so
that FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and
some of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2: Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3: Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4: Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)