Re: Run command on sqlplus repetitively without reconnection

On 5/23/07, David Taft <oradbt054_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> The part I'm not completely sure about is the double-dash (--). The AIX
> man page for ksh is very sparse. I went to publib.boulder.ibm.com/.../korn_shell_enhanced.htm
> under "Coproces facility", but didn't find any help there. I did find some
> info under the getopts command that makes me think the double-dash is just a
> kind of terminator that says "don't check for any more options after -p. Is
> that correct?
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The -- is not specific to co-processes, but is used to tell the shell to stop looking for options on the command line, and consider everything following the -- as an argument.

eg. Create a file named '-i'

Now try to delete it with 'rm -i'.

This obviously won't work, but 'rm -- -i' will work.

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Jared Still
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