Re: Exporting directly to tape on HP-UX 10.x

From: John Verhoeven <johnv_at_acix.DIALix.oz.au>
Date: 1996/02/11
Message-ID: <johnv.09hq_at_acix.DIALix.oz.au>#1/1


In article dated Thu, 08 Feb 1996 11:38:20 -0500, Brian M. Biggs (bbiggs_at_cincom.com) wrote:
> One of our DBA's is trying to export a large database directly to tape,
> and is having trouble doing it automatically from a shell script (for
> eventual use in a cron job).
 

> Volume size (<ret> for no restriction) >

I created a file called answer with just a carriage return (CR) in it. I did my export with 'exp .... < answer' and it took the CR as the answer to the question and went on its merry way.

No doubt somebody else will have a better answer...but it worked.

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