Re: Re: Shell scripting

Omar,

If what you mean is:

"How do I send a value from sqlplus plus directly to a variable in my shell environment?"

You can't.

What you've done is the way it is usually done.

Another way to do it is to use the '&|' korn shell mechanism.

e.g.
  sqlplus -silent scott/tiger@$ORACLE_SID |&

This allows you to send commands straight to sqlplus from the ksh command line, and retrieve the results of queries from the cmd line.

It's not as easy as it appears. I wrote a set of shell functions once upon a time to do this, and it gets more complex than you expect.

The method you are currently using works ok.

Of course, you could use Perl with DBI and avoid all this subshell nonsense.

Jared

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 01:23, Cyril Thankappan wrote:
> Sure
>
> THanks Omar
>
> But I was looking for a
> 'non-file based' solution :)
>
> Thanks anyway
>
> On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 Omar Khalid wrote :
> >hi
> >
> >well i think i did this once, you can read
> >the output of the SQL query into shell variables by
> >first redirecting the output of the SQL query to an
> >OS file and then reading the file and loading
> >the data in the file into shell variables.
> >
> >/* here is sample code to redirect the output of sql query to OS
> >file */
> >
> >#!/bin/sh
> >
> >CMD_FILE=sql_input.sql
> >LOC_FILE=output.log
> >
> > SQLCMD="connect internal ;
> > select * from sys.dba_users ;"
> > echo "$SQLCMD" > ${CMD_FILE}
> >
> > svrmgrl < ${CMD_FILE} > ${LOC_FILE} /* redirecting the
> >out of
> >svrmgrl to OS file */
> >
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> >Hi
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> >I wanted to select a column from a v$ table
> >
> >struggled with it
> >and finally came with a workaround as follows
> >
> >------------------------------------
> >
> >archived_log='$archived_log'
> >begin_seq=`sqlplus -s /nolog <<EOF
> >connect / as sysdba
> >set head off
> >set echo off
> >set feedback off
> >set verify off
> >select max(sequence#)-1 from v$archived_log ;
> >exit
> >EOF`
> >echo $begin_seq
> >
> >---------------------------------------
> >
> >However, the question is how to
> >'directly' take the output into a shell variable?
> >there 'shud be' a better workaround than this !
> >
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