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script not recognising charcters after $ [message #357257]

Tue, 04 November 2008 08:32

diamond
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Registered: July 2008

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hi,

my script is running an SQL command and is givin an error as.. it is not recognising the history after $:

select * from registry$history;

the error states:

no such view or table as registry

same error seen when queried for

V$tablespace

as no table or view by the name V

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Re: script not recognising charcters after $ [message #357264 is a reply to message #357257]

Tue, 04 November 2008 08:52

Mahesh Rajendran
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Just escape the "$" inside your shell script.
Something like
v\$tablespace

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Re: script not recognising charcters after $ [message #357362 is a reply to message #357264]

Wed, 05 November 2008 01:13

diamond
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i have done that. but stil the same error:

in the script...
select * from registry\$history;

output...

select * from registry
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

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Re: script not recognising charcters after $ [message #357368 is a reply to message #357362]

Wed, 05 November 2008 01:27

Michel Cadot
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Without the actual script and what you did with it, how can one help you?

Regards
Michel

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