From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Jul 7 15:29:44 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j67KTica020930 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:29:44 -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 j67KTdIP020904 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:29:41 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8EB071CB010; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:26:32 -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 26423-03; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:26:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 15DD11CAF38; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:26:32 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qAoF7J+8FrBST1IZirVM5FRTVmba7mF5ZPBChm89GEXvSYUCrgvxMETGdyLz8XsKHTTxMhOujBEnLZt64rpcNLMwMluC1HfiGettOGTBNgEYXAGC4tTWi+e9x0DY1LXWxhXt0U88i/YUfNrD+W7uhh1b/ucIf/IZc79F8c3Ew3I= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:24:35 -0400 From: Paul Baumgartel To: Oracle-L@freelists.org Subject: Re: SQl Help - use of special characters in a script when sending a password In-Reply-To: <3F02DCE8969E484482022C07D8CD6D9BE73170@waumail02.wausau.int> 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 Content-Disposition: inline References: <3F02DCE8969E484482022C07D8CD6D9BE73170@waumail02.wausau.int> X-archive-position: 22216 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: paul.baumgartel@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: paul.baumgartel@gmail.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 in the login.sql, bracket the connect line with set scan off and set scan on The sqlplus command "set scan" controls whether sqlplus looks for the defined substitution character. On 7/7/05, Henslee, Jeff wrote: > 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 > -- Paul Baumgartel paul.baumgartel@aya.yale.edu -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l