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Old 03-09-2012
How the user will provide the parameters for Oracle db connection in a shell script?

I'm new into unix.

My question: is possible to write a shell script which will ask for the
ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, USERNAME, PASSWORD to connect to Oracle db.

In generally we have to set the ORACLE_HOME in .profile file. And after putting the 'sqlplus' command it asks for the username & password for db connection.

plz share your ideas.

Thanks,
Priya
 
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