Re: Run command on sqlplus repetitively without reconnection

On 5/23/07, David Taft <oradbt054@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



The part I'm not completely sure about is the double-dash (--). The AIX
man page for ksh is very sparse.  I went to 
publib.boulder.ibm.com/.../korn_shell_enhanced.htm
under "Coproces facility", but didn't find any help there. I did find some
info under the getopts command that makes me think the double-dash is just a
kind of terminator that says "don't check for any more options after -p.  Is
that correct?




The -- is not specific to co-processes, but is used to tell the shell to
stop looking for options on the command line, and consider everything
following the -- as an argument.

eg.  Create a file named '-i'

Now try to delete it with 'rm -i'.

This obviously won't work, but 'rm -- -i' will work.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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