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I'm really new to Bash and want to run a script that will write some records to a DB for disk usage and the like but am having a problem with the syntax.
I have the insert statements but am struggling on getting them to execute correctly in SQLPlus, can anyone assist?
Do I need to pass a variable to SQLPlus with the insert statements or can I call them directly?
I'm really new to Bash and want to run a script that will write some records to a DB for disk usage and the like but am having a problem with the syntax.
I have the insert statements but am struggling on getting them to execute correctly in SQLPlus, can anyone assist? Do I need to pass a variable to SQLPlus with the insert statements or can I call them directly?
This is the relevant part of a script I did some time ago to do this as well. Replace things as needed.
Code:
[ -f "dir.txt" ] && echo "File present" || exit 1
while read line
do
echo "whatever data insert statement(s) you want here" >> /path/to/insert.sql
done < dir.txt
sqlplus -s username/password <<EOF
set scan off;
@/path/to/insert.sql
exit;
EOF
Essentially, I used the bash script to play with the variables accordingly, and build a sql file, then just called it via sqlplus. For me, it was much simpler to do it that way, since the bash portion was pure bash, and I just used the sqlplus statement to shovel through the .sql file built FROM the bash script.
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