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Old 09-30-2008
about the value returned from oracle

Hi all

can i use unix variable holds the data returned by oracle in a shell script?

x=sqlplus -s u/p@h <<! >>fg.log
whenever sqlerr exit 1
select count(*) from schema.mat_view;
exit
!
echo $x

Will the $x return the value of count(*)?



thanks
megh
# 2  
Old 09-30-2008
Yes you can:

Code:
$ v=$(sqlplus -s<<!
/ as sysdba
set pages 0 feed off
select ltrim(count(1)) from all_objects;
!
)
$ printf "%s\n" "$v"
8542

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