sqlplus and end-of-line problem in shell script code

[mwoehlke]

Thomas Porschberg wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to use our shell script collection which includes sqlplus calls
> under Cygwin.
> I have the following problem with this code snippet:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> RESULT=`sqlplus -s myuser/mypasswd@MYDB <<EOF
> SET FEEDBACK OFF;
> SET PAGESIZE 0;
> SELECT '42' FROM DUAL;
> EOF`
> 
> if test "$RESULT" = "42" ; then
> echo "Result is 42..."
> else
> echo "Result is not 42 ??!"
> fi
> 
> When I run the script on UNIX it prints "Result is 42..." which is OK.
> When I run the script under Cygwin the result is: "Result is not 42??!"
> The reason is that under Cygwin the result of the SELECT are 3
> characters "42" "CR" "LF" (instead of 2 characters "42" and "LF").
> I did not found a way to convince sqlplus to produce UNIX-EOLs on
> Windows. Does anyone know how to solve the problem without changing
> the code itself ?

Um, if by "the code" you meant the above script, then no. Otherwise it 
looks like you could drop a '| d2u' (or '| sed s/\r//g') in there. I 
forget though if you want:

RESULT=`app | d2u << EOF
input
EOF`

or

RESULT=`app << EOF
input
EOF | d2u`

...or possibly neither. At any rate, that's a question of shell syntax; 
get that right and it seems it should work.

-- 
Matthew
My preferred shell is Christian. It's Bourne Again.


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