RE: SQL Command list history on Linux

From: Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 07:11:11 -0800 (PST)
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Slow to start? Maybe a second, or 3? If it's taking longer than that, please let me know.  

Java 8u50 or higher will be ok, which is about 2-2.5 years old?  

It's a 20mb or so download, so takes less than a minute to install if you don't have it. Less time than it takes maybe to setup rlwrap.esp if you're on Windows.  

From: Neil Chandler [mailto:neil_chandler_at_hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 7:59 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org; gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com Subject: Re: SQL Command list history on Linux  

Mladen,  

What has that go to do with the original posters question?

If you are developing PL/SQL in SQL*Plus, you're probably not doing it efficiently. SQL Developer is the better (free) tool for that, regardless of platform.

SQLCI is great, but it's slow to start, requires a fairly recent Java release, and only natively available from 12.2.

If you want Windows-like editing on a Linux SQL*Plus (or dgmgrl, rman or whatever), use rlwrap.  

regards  

Neil Chandler.

Database Guy.  


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On 01/02/2018 04:51 PM, Neil Chandler wrote:

Jeff,  

My preferred solution is to install "rlwrap" [ e.g. "yum install rlwrap" - check out HYPERLINK "https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_hanslub42_rlwrap&d=DwMFAw&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=N2hWu5HFsaIjmMkjQbnlokJ7uinNZMgPVk8rqPT9esM&m=0bds7QIoykh2KktiFwI5q5NtAunsmhvpPbDLFAGKbBY&s=cRMpNNnqbVGwt9R-SUJkdE4mCdC-1KZy0LkLX77BvUY&e="https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap ] it provides similar functionality to a windows CMD environment. You just call the command you want to use via rlwrap  

e.g. rlwrap sqlplus, or rlwrap dgmgrl  

To keep thing simple, you can alias it  

alias rsql='rlwrap sqlplus'

alias rdg='rlwrap dgmgrl'  

regards  

Neil Chandler  

Hi Neil,
Rlwrap is not an equivalent solution. The "rlwrap" trick breaks editing of PL/SQL code, which can be annoying. If you write a multi-line PL/SQL snippet and something goes wrong, "ed" will only return a part of the snippet. SQLCl will do the right thing and give you back the entire procedure. It has a primitive screen editor built into the code because arrow keys also work when editing the history commands. Also, SQLCl has "REPEAT" command which turns your SQLCl session into an instant monitor, if necessary. In addition to all that, there is Jeff Smith, who has been doing an outstanding job with the product and explaining it on this list. Jeff is extremely helpful and a very nice guy. And no, I don't work for Oracle Corp. and I don't plan on working for Oracle anytime soon. Regards

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