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Re: Piping output from sqlplus


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Christopher Faylor wrote:
| On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:29:16PM -0500, Chuck wrote:
|
|>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, $line is empty.
|
|
| Just to demonstrate what you're seeing without the sqlplus requirement:
|
|   bash$ echo hello | read line
|   bash$ echo $line
|
|   bash$
|
| The reason for the behavior is apparently that when you use read in a
| pipe like this bash and ash fork a separate process so the variable only
| exists very briefly in that process and `line' is never defined in the
| main process.
|
| zsh does what you'd expect, so if you can use zsh instead of bash, that
| would be a solution.  Otherwise, you probably will have to experiment
| with setting IFS and using either $(sqlplus) or `sqlplus` .
|
| cgf
|

Actually I'm using ksh.

$ echo hello | read LINE
$ echo $LINE

$

Looks like you said. I know this is not the expectd behaviour for ksh
though. On Solaris ksh ...

Solaris$ echo hello | read LINE
Solaris$ echo $LINE
hello
Solaris$

Why would ksh behave differently under Cygwin than under Solaris?


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