Re: Cygwin for use on Oracle Servers

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "J. Laurindo Chiappa" <jlchiappa1967@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:28:26 -0700

Thanks, this is the kind of feedback I am looking for.

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, J. Laurindo Chiappa <
jlchiappa1967@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jared , I use cygwin for simple tasks only (ie, check the last first lines
> on log files, count lines, find patterns/files, etc), this kind of task is
> so much easier with the unix commands/tools, I think... Regarding variables,
> the ORACLE variables (ie, like ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME, etc) will be used by
> windows executables, so must follow Windows conventions, and system
> variables (like PATH) must follow cygwin ones, as :
>
> chiappa@user-b468644a75 ~
> $ export ORACLE_SID=O10GR2
>
> chiappa@user-b468644a75 ~
> $ export ORACLE_HOME="C:\O10GR2"
>
>
>

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