Re: SQLPLus Host command shortcut

On 2006-08-23, dm1959_at_tampabay.rr.com <dm1959_at_tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> I am in the process of moving some Unix Oracle databases to Window
> environment and thus far, working well. I have some deploy scripts
> though that are using the Host command in this form of: !mkdir
>
> On the Unix environment it works well but on the windows environment I
> get errors that this command is unknown. I did discover that I can
> using the shortcut of: $mkdir.. Is there anyway that I can change the
> default shortcut from $ to ! And then I don't have to change all of my
> shell scripts. I also recognize that I could change my shells properly
> so that they call: HOST mkdir but was just wondering if I could change
> it prior to me making all of the rest of the changes. So basically,
> long term I would change to HOST but short term for test purposes I
> would like to me able to do" !mkdir in windows.
>
> Any help you can provide is most appreciated.

I think that's less of an Oracle related question than some scripting/perl/python/whatever related question.

It seems to me that you need a script of some sort that takes your scripts and finds ! as first character in each line and replaces the ! with $.

hth,
Rene

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