2008/10/24 Fuad Arshad <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx> > Folks, > I'm trying to find a way to script finding an approximation of the version > of the database without connecting to the database itself. > The goal is to try to find out of the Oracle_home is a Oracle 10 home , 9 > home etc . > > right now i'm doiing something like > DATAVERSION1=`echo $ORACLE_HOME | awk -F/ '{print $6}'` > expecting that $6 would lead me to something like > /usr/local/oracle/product/10.2 > > but this is not a very foolproof implementation since installs can take > various forms and break this implementation. > > > Any ideas of how i can get the oracle version info considering that i will > always know the value of $ORACLE_HOME. > lsnrctl status will give you the listener binary version may be can help D.