Re: W|tee|F? DataPump doesn't work with Unix tee function?

From: Adric Norris <spikey.mcmarbles_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:24:09 -0500
Message-ID: <d4beff360907020624h3fc5c4ffn639cc0f91ad8bd28_at_mail.gmail.com>

Perhaps expdp uses stderr instead of stdout for some reason? If so, something like this would probably work.

expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par 2>&1 | tee -a somefile

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 08:01, Bellows, Bambi (Comsys) <bbel5_at_allstate.com>wrote:

> Friends –
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> I am trying to mechanize a datapump process and send an email if it fails.
> Problem is that
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> expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par|tee –a somefile
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> does not, in fact, tee –a anything! I can do
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> expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par >somefile 2>somefile
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> but that disables output to the screen, which the user running the job
> certainly wouldn’t like. So… three questions…
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> 1) How do you get output onto the screen and into a file without
> using tee?
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> 2) How in the world did Oracle manage to disable tee in the first
> place?
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> 3) Why would they want to?
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> Other than that, best wishes to all my good friends for a lovely holiday
> and/or quiet list day!
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> Thanks!
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> Bambi.
>

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Received on Thu Jul 02 2009 - 08:24:09 CDT