Oracle-L: RE: Unix Q: ksh scripting

From: <chris.w.johnson_at_bt.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:18:19 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004A079F.20020724011819@fatcity.com>

Ross,

You are hitting a couple of problems here:

1 - the 'tail' command needs to be on your first line (sqlplus / <<EOF | tail -1)

2. However, I suspect this will not give you what you want as sqlplus prints a blank line at the end. Try the following:

sqlplus -s / << EOF | grep -v ^$ | sed -n '$p select sysdate from dual;
exit
EOF Grep will remove blank lines - sed will print last line. I'm sure there are many more ways of doing this.

HTH, Chris

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Sent: 24 July 2002 05:53
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Hi all,
Can any of our Unix gurus here transform my script below to work properly? The intention is to print the last line of the sqlplus output. With set -x, it appears anything after the last EOF is ignored. Why? Thanks.
Ross

#!/bin/ksh
#set -x
sqlplus / <<EOF
select sysdate from dual;
exit
EOF | tail -1
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