Re: SQL*Plus with readline

At 14:09 16-12-03 -0800, you wrote:
>I know there's a lot of folks who grumble about the spartan-ness of
>SQL*Plus, but the only real feature I wish it had was GNU readline
>capability for command history and editing. I've looked at some wrappers
>(yasql, gasql), as well as replacements (henplus, which is quite nice,
>actually), but today I found something that seems to do exactly what I
>really want--SQL*Plus behavior, augmented with readline support (So I can
>still do stuff like output formatting, spooling, etc., etc.,). Yes, I
>actually dig SQL*Plus, just wish it had readline.
>
>So today I found a little utility called uniread:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/uniread/
>
>It's a Perl program that
>
>"adds full readline support (command editing, history, etc.) to any
>existing interactive command-line program. Common examples are Oracle's
>sqlplus or jython. uniread will work on any POSIX platform with Perl."
>
>I tried it out with SQL*plus, and so far seems to work beautifully. Just
>thought I'd share.
>
>-- Dan
>========================================================================
> Daniel Hanks - Systems/Database Administrator
> About Inc., Web Services Division
>========================================================================

Don't know this particular one, but ran into a shell on HP-UX with similar capabilities. I was a developer those days, and the feature I liked most was its capability to unveil sys/system passwords. Just get this shell running and ask the DBA to do something from your terminal. After that, the non-echoed password will be perfectly visible in command-line history (after the DBA left the scene, of course). They never found out how we were able to discover their passwords. I think it's now safe to spread the knowledge around.

Does this tool have the same 'functionality'? So, be carefull, or take advantage of it ;-).

Regards, Carel-Jan

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