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12-11-2004, 01:21 PM	#1
gopikrish LQ Newbie Registered: Aug 2004 Posts: 28 Rep:	Is VALUE Unix command? Is Value a Unix command? VALUE=`sqlplus -silent user/password@instance <<END So in the above what does it do actually? Any ideas? Thanks. Last edited by gopikrish; 12-11-2004 at 02:05 PM.

12-11-2004, 02:07 PM	#2
trickykid LQ Guru Registered: Jan 2001 Posts: 24,149 Rep:	From the information provided, it appears that VALUE is an alias or some kind of environment variable, not an actual command.

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