Not sure if you already thought of utilizing "oratab" Regards, Santhosh Channa -----Original Message----- From: Fuad Arshad [mailto:fuadar@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:45 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the database. 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. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l