On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Phillip Jones <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > EOF" > > Should be > > EOF > " > > That doesn't seem to be necessary - identical results on Oracle Linux 5 with bash and ksh on (old) Suse linux ==== #!/bin/sh cmd=" $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target / nocatalog <<EOF show all; EOF" echo "$cmd" eval "$cmd" results: 16:35-poirot:ts20:jkstill-27 > ./r.sh /u01/app/oracle/product/10gR2/ts20/bin/rman target / nocatalog <<EOF show all; EOF Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Fri Dec 9 16:35:51 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. connected to target database: TS20 (DBID=509834197) using target database control file instead of recovery catalog RMAN> RMAN configuration parameters are: CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO REDUNDANCY 1; # default CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION OFF; # default CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; # default CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '%F'; # default CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE DISK PARALLELISM 1 BACKUP TYPE TO BACKUPSET; # default CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 1; # default CONFIGURE MAXSETSIZE TO UNLIMITED; # default CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION FOR DATABASE OFF; # default CONFIGURE ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM 'AES128'; # default CONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG DELETION POLICY TO NONE; # default CONFIGURE SNAPSHOT CONTROLFILE NAME TO '/u01/app/oracle/product/10gR2/ts20/dbs/snapcf_ts20.f'; # default RMAN> Recovery Manager complete. [ /home/jkstill/tmp ] 16:35-poirot:ts20:jkstill-27 > PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2^C [ /home/jkstill/tmp ] Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l