Re: help: how do you find oracle home on windows
From: Rene Nyffenegger <rene.nyffenegger_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 17 Jul 2002 19:56:32 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns924EDF5AD209Agnuegischgnueg_at_130.133.1.4>
>
>
> Welcome to the world of Windoze. You can't live with it and you can't
> kill it. Well I should not be so hostile...I use it a lot but then
> again I have no choice.
>
> If you are familiar with the Windows registry then it will be easy for
> you. Just look up the value at
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\[ORACLE_HOME]
>
> to get the default Oracle home. If you have multiple Oracle versions
> installed on your machine then the home counter enumerates in registry
> at,
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0...HOME1 and so on.
>
> In that case you can query the value for each oracle home at
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME<x>\[ORACLE_HOME].
>
> You can invoke registry editor by using 16 bit utility regedit.exe or
> 32 bit regedt32.exe from command line. If you want to query registry
> programatically, then pretty much every Windows development tool has
> slew of functions to work on registry. If you want to do this from a
> batch script, you can use regedit.exe or regedt32.exe with command
> line switches.
Date: 17 Jul 2002 19:56:32 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns924EDF5AD209Agnuegischgnueg_at_130.133.1.4>
> u705413818_at_spawnkill.ip-mobilphone.net (Joe Bayer) wrote in message
> news:<l.1026833106.1864440917_at_[64.94.198.252]>...
>> *** post for FREE via your newsreader at post.newsfeed.com *** >> >> I might be a very easy question, but not for me who only works with [Quoted] >> unix until now. >> >> At unix, we can use env | grep ORA >> >> but what is the equivalent on Windows? >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent by joebayerii from hotmail part from com >> This is a spam protected message. Please answer with reference header. >> Posted via http://www.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/new >> >> >> -----= Posted via Newsfeed.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- >> http://www.newsfeed.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >> -----== 100,000 Groups! - 19 Servers! - Unlimited Download! =-----
>
>
> Welcome to the world of Windoze. You can't live with it and you can't
> kill it. Well I should not be so hostile...I use it a lot but then
> again I have no choice.
>
> If you are familiar with the Windows registry then it will be easy for
> you. Just look up the value at
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\[ORACLE_HOME]
>
> to get the default Oracle home. If you have multiple Oracle versions
> installed on your machine then the home counter enumerates in registry
> at,
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0...HOME1 and so on.
>
> In that case you can query the value for each oracle home at
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME<x>\[ORACLE_HOME].
>
> You can invoke registry editor by using 16 bit utility regedit.exe or
> 32 bit regedt32.exe from command line. If you want to query registry
> programatically, then pretty much every Windows development tool has
> slew of functions to work on registry. If you want to do this from a
> batch script, you can use regedit.exe or regedt32.exe with command
> line switches.
[Quoted] Alternatively, pipe the output of set through findstr:
C:\>set | findstr "ORA"
ORACLE_HOME=C:\ORACLE\ORA81
Hope this helped
Rene
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