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RE: Piping output from sqlplus
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:48:15 -0500
- Subject: RE: Piping output from sqlplus
At Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:29 PM, Chuck wrote:
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> I'm having a strange problem reading the output from sqlplus in
> Cygwin. Sqlplus is a windows command line program used to access
> oracle
> databases. My command looks something like this...
>
> sqlplus -s <<! | read line
> user/password@database
> set pagesize 0 linesize 200 feedback off tab off
> select col1||chr(9)||col2
> from table;
> !
>
> This should output one line to stdout with the two values separated
> by a tab character. The read command should read it into the variable
> $line.
> On my Solaris system it works perfectly. In Cygwin, $line is empty.
>
> If I remove the "read line", the output displays on the tty just fine.
>
> I though it might be related to the line end characters so I tried
> converting them with the dos2unix filter. Didn't work. Neither did tr
> -d \\r. Both ways, $line still ends up being empty.
>
> If I replace the "read line" with "od -c" to dump the characters, it
> shows the one line as expected.
>
> If I redirect the output to a file, the file contains one line as
> expected.
>
> If I try to read the output into a variable, I get an empty variable
>
> Any ideas?
If the output shows up OK in a file, do
VAR="$(cat file)"
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