Re: W|tee|F? DataPump doesn't work with Unix tee function?

  • From: Mathias Magnusson <mathias.magnusson@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bbel5@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:22:52 +0200

I would suspect them sending it to stderr.

Would something like this work?

expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par 2>&1|tee –a somefile

Mathias

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Bellows, Bambi (Comsys)
<bbel5@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>    Friends –
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> I am trying to mechanize a datapump process and send an email if it fails.
> Problem is that
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> expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par|tee –a somefile
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> does not, in fact, tee –a anything!  I can do
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> expdp username/incrediblysecretpassword parfile=x.par >somefile 2>somefile
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> but that disables output to the screen, which the user running the job
> certainly wouldn’t like.  So… three questions…
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> 1)       How do you get output onto the screen and into a file without
> using tee?
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> 2)       How in the world did Oracle manage to disable tee in the first
> place?
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> 3)       Why would they want to?
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> Other than that, best wishes to all my good friends for a lovely holiday
> and/or quiet list day!
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> Thanks!
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> Bambi.
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