RE: Unix question: how to display SID and path in prompt

Starting in VMS 7.0 or 7.1 (I forget which), you *can* use pipes:

$	GREP := SEARCH SYS$PIPE
$	PIPE SHOW SYSTEM | GREP ora_

And it gets even better with "SET PROCESS/PARSE=EXTENDED" on the Alphas...

:)

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Lembark [mailto:lembark_at_wrkhors.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:13 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Unix question: how to display SID and path in prompt
>
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>
>
> -- Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil
>
> > Obviously. If you had worked on VMS, why would you want to
> emulate it?
>
> Actually the platform had a number of virtues -- file
> versions not the least, along with separate system access.
> DCL itself had some nice features, if they'd only added
> pipes it would've been equivalent to most *NIX shells w/
> the added benefit of lexical var's.

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