Ross, Not sure if original mail got through (looked garbled on Fatcity website) so here goes again....
You are hitting a couple of problems here: 1 - the 'tail' command needs to be on your first line (sqlplus / <<EOF | tail -1) 2. However, I suspect this will not give you what you want as sqlplus prints a blank line at the end. Try the following: sqlplus -s / << EOF | grep -v ^$ | sed -n '$p' select sysdate from dual; exit EOF Grep will remove blank lines - sed will print last line. I'm sure there are many more ways of doing this. HTH, Chris -----Original Message----- Sent: 24 July 2002 05:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, Can any of our Unix gurus here transform my script below to work properly? The intention is to print the last line of the sqlplus output. With set -x, it appears anything after the last EOF is ignored. Why? Thanks. Ross #!/bin/ksh #set -x sqlplus / <<EOF select sysdate from dual; exit EOF | tail -1 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ross Collado INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
