On 25/09/2013 18:55, Chris Taylor wrote: > Is there a way to do a nohup in a loop so that the uname/password doesn't > show up on the ps list? I thought about assigning it to a variable but > that doesn't really work to hide the username password either. [...] Hi Chris, you can use the following syntax: nohup sqlplus -s << EOF & >> $logfile </dev/null $v_user/$v_pass @$sqlfile $table_name EOF Something like this: $ set +m $ for dummy_user in 1 2 3; do > nohup sqlplus -s <<! & >> _logfile_ 2>&1 </dev/null > $dummy_user/ as sysdba > select $dummy_user from dual; > ! > pgrep -lf 'sqlplus -s' & > done [1] 28465 [2] 28466 [3] 28467 [4] 28468 Sending output to nohup.out 28465 nohup sqlplus -s 28468 pgrep -lf sqlplus -sSending output to nohup.out Sending output to nohup.out 28465 nohup sqlplus -s 28466 pgrep -lf sqlplus -s 28467 sqlplus -s 28469 sqlplus -s 28467 sqlplus -s 28469 sqlplus -s [5] 28469 28465 sqlplus -s 28467 sqlplus -s 28469 sqlplus -s [6] 28470 $ cat nohup.out 1 ---------- 1 2 ---------- 2 3 ---------- 3 Note that you don't need to run each command in nohup, but only the parent script (if you use one)): nohup ./script_name > logfile 2>&1 & Regards Dimitre -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l