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Old 04-16-2009
how to input the CAT command output in Shell
Hi guys...

I am new to this scripting...so please forgive me if anything worng in my questions...

here is my question..

I have file structure

/home/oracle/<sid>/logs/bkup

now i want to write a script which should grep the sid name from a file..and it should replace the <SID> with tht name and it has to check the last logfile which is created for errors.

now the problem is i have command to get the list of SID

cat /etc/oratab | awk '{print $1}' | cut -f1 -d ":"

sid1
sid2
sid3
sid4
...
...
...

problem is how do i replace the this SID's in tht location like

/home/oracle/sid1/log/bkup
....etc..
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Old 04-16-2009
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