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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Space in PATH variable Post 303000110 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 4th of July 2017 11:45:48 AM
Old 07-04-2017
Not ignoring what Don has said (because that is very important), would you not be better using the IFS variable? The Input Field Separator (I think) is a way to chop up input in a more meaningful way to you, so you could perhaps:-
Code:
IFS=: read SID ORACLE_HOME YorN < <(grep -E "^SGCD:" /etc/oratab)

This should work in bash, but sadly I don't have a true ksh any more. The IFS setting as a colon : means that the output from the grep will be split up and you can read them into three variables, so you get the SID, the ORACLE_HOME that you really want and the Y or N value for it being auto-started. The variables you read are positional and the last variable gets everything to the end of the line, so if you miss out the YorN one, then $ORACLE_HOME
will be /export/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_2:N which I assume you do not want.

In ksh, you might have to do this instead (untested) to get a similar result:-
Code:
grep -E "^SGCD:" /etc/oratab | read SID ORACLE_HOME YorN



I hope that this helps,
Robin
 

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choptest

CHOPTEST(8C)															      CHOPTEST(8C)

NAME

       choptest - HylaFAX page chopping test program

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/choptest [ options ] input.tif

DESCRIPTION

       choptest is a program for testing the page chopping support in the HylaFAX software (specifically, in the faxq(8C) program).  choptest ana-
       lyzes a TIFF/F (TIFF Class F) file with 1-D MH- or 2-D MR-encoded data and reports what the automatic page chopping logic would do  if  the
       file were submitted for transmission.  Options are provided for controlling whether choptest checks the last page or all pages of the docu-
       ment, and what whitespace threshold to use in deciding if a page should be chopped.

OPTIONS

       -a	 Chop all pages in the document.  This is equivalent to setting the PageChop configuration parameter to  ``all'';  c.f.   hylafax-
		 config(5F).  By default only the last page of the document is considered.

       -t inches Set  the  minimum  whitespace	threshold  that  must  be present on a page for it to be chopped.  This is equivalent to the Page-
		 ChopThreshold configuration parameter; c.f.  hylafax-config(5F).  By default choptest requires that at least 3 inches of trailing
		 whitespace be present.

EXAMPLES

       The following shows a multi-page, high-resolution document.  Each page has insufficient whitespace for it to be chopped.

       hyla% ./choptest -a ~/tiff/pics/faxix.tif
       Chop pages with >=3" of white space at the bottom.
       Don't chop, found 67 rows, need 588 rows
       Don't chop, found 67 rows, need 588 rows
       Don't chop, found 67 rows, need 588 rows
       Don't chop, found 53 rows, need 588 rows
       Don't chop, found 91 rows, need 588 rows
       Don't chop, found 99 rows, need 588 rows
       Don't chop, found 47 rows, need 588 rows

SEE ALSO

       faxq(8C), hylafax-config(5F)

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