RE: Exporting thru a pipe

Basically, from http://www.orafaq.com

Create a compressed export on the fly. Depending on the type of data, you probably can export up to 10 gigabytes to a single file. This example uses gzip. It offers the best compression I know of, but you can also substitute it with zip, compress or whatever.

        # create a named pipe
        mknod exp.pipe p
        # read the pipe - output to zip file in the background
        gzip < exp.pipe > scott.exp.gz &
        # feed the pipe
        exp userid=scott/tiger file=exp.pipe ...

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

"Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate."

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:20 PM
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> Subject: Exporting thru a pipe
>
> Folks,
>
> I know someone had the script because I've read it here, but at the
> time it
> was on little interest since an export did not take that much space. Well
> times
> have changed & I now need a way on HP-UX to export into a pipe that passes
> the
> data thru gzip or compress before hitting the disk drive. Anyone have
> that
> script hanging around??
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dick Goulet
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