Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

i am writing a script for exporting tables in oracle, my requirement is to take parameters from the user in a file..
i have to open vi the file,, once user is done with entering the parameters i have to save the file and execite the command

exp parfile=exp_2.par ..

please let me know, how to go about it...

thank you

- Assuming your parameter file is in the proper shell format ( NAME=Value ) ,
all you have to do is to "source in" this file to your shell script ;

suppose your params file is called my_parms , and it contains :

Code:

WORKDIR=/tmp/whatever
SOMEPARM=123

and your runnable script is in the same directory , you place the line below in the beginning of your runnable script :

Code:

. ./my_parms

- this will make all the variables defined in your params file known to your script ;

Good Luck, and Success !

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