From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Jul 7 15:21:21 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j67KLJhl019727 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:21:19 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j67KLCIP019696 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:21:12 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id BCE2E1C9480; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:18:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25315-06; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:18:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 41D781C961D; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:18:20 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Subject: SQl Help - use of special characters in a script when sending a password Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:16:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3F02DCE8969E484482022C07D8CD6D9BE73170@waumail02.wausau.int> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: SQl Help - use of special characters in a script when sending a password Thread-Index: AcWDMMGS/3rxsQywRMy7LKZgnigSMQ== From: "Henslee, Jeff" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jul 2005 20:16:28.0275 (UTC) FILETIME=[C1C8AC30:01C58330] X-archive-position: 22212 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jhenslee@wausauwindow.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: jhenslee@wausauwindow.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 Apologies for the simple question - but I'm having a total brain fart. ====== Oracle 8.1.74 and Solaris 8 I have a file which I use in scripts to connect as a certain user. They are set to be available to only the oracle user and members of the dba group. basically, they are hidden files and called: ..login.sql and contain: connect username/password when I execute sqlplus I use: $ sqlplus -s /nolog @.login.sql My problem is that I have a user password that contains a '&' character. (Example:) connect username/Blob21&vb02 How can I code in the '&' character into my script and NOT have sqlplus think it is a variable? Anybody ever run into this? I know that in SQL you can use something like: select field1, field2 from foo where code like '%\_%' escape '\' How can I do it in a password (file) in my example? Please advise. Many Thanks! Jeffrey C. Henslee mailto:jhenslee@wausauwindow.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l