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Old 11-06-2018
Update a database table in a for loop

Im trying to update an informix database table for each occurance of a head_barcode in a file called mw within a for loop


please see below - cant get the syntax correct. any help please?




Code:
for a in `cat /tmp/mw`
do

sql image - << STOP > /dev/null 2>&1
update doc_table set status = 'Q'
where head_barcode = $a

STOP

 done



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update-mime-database(1) 					   User Commands					   update-mime-database(1)

NAME
update-mime-database - build the shared MIME_Info database cache SYNOPSIS
update-mime-database [-h] [-v] [-V] mime-dir DESCRIPTION
update-mime-database updates the shared mime-info cache according to the system described in the Shared MIME-Info Database specification from the X Desktop Group. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -h Display a command summary. -v Display version information -V Display verbose output OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: mime-dir The directory for which update-mime-database should rebuild the cache. This option is mandatory if no other option is pro- vided. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Update Shared mime-info Cache for /usr/share example% update-mime-database /usr/share ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5). EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/update-mime-database Executable to build the shared MIME_Info database cache ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
update-desktop-database(1), attributes(5), environ(5), gnome-interfaces(5) Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. Shared MIME info at http://www.freedesktop.org/. NOTES
Original man page written by Filip Von Raemdonck (mechanix@debian.org). Updated by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2007. SunOS 5.11 08 Nov 2007 update-mime-database(1)
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