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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers script returns prompt Post 41424 by kburrows on Monday 6th of October 2003 09:22:08 AM
Old 10-06-2003
script returns prompt
Hi,

I am trying to create a script that will loop through my oratab file and pull out the instance name.

Here is script:

for instance in $(cat /etc/oratab|egrep ':N|:Y'|grep -v \*|grep -v \#|cut -f1 -d':')
do
echo Instance $instance is in the oratab
echo $ORACLE_HOME
done

From what I can tell, it starts another process, why? Then it returns my prompt with no echo output to screen. Then I have to kill the process, now my output shows up after its killed.

What am I missing here?

Thanks,
Kathy
 

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