{"id":1332,"date":"2007-10-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2007-10-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T12:00:00","slug":"script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/28\/script\/","title":{"rendered":"Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as the which blog was deemed useful (although most commentors did already know about it), how about the <a href=\"http:\/\/unixhelp.ed.ac.uk\/CGI\/man-cgi?script\">script<\/a> Unix command?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very useful for keeping a record of an extended series of actions, like those a DBA will often encounter when implementing a complex change. It&#8217;s also useful for attaching a complex working example to a Service Request to illustrate a problem. (That was the example that cropped up the other day that prompted this blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as the which blog was deemed useful (although most commentors did already know about it), how about the script Unix command? It&#8217;s very useful for keeping a record of an extended series of actions, like those a DBA will often encounter when implementing a complex change. It&#8217;s also useful for attaching a complex working&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/28\/script\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Script<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":957,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/10\/a-shortcut-for-oracle_home\/","url_meta":{"origin":1332,"position":0},"title":"A shortcut for ORACLE_HOME","date":"August 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I've enjoyed quite a few of the tips in other people's Oracle-related blogs (see the links in the right hand pane) so thought I'd chuck in a few as well. This one's an old one, so many of you will know about it already, but for those that don't ...In\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1553,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/13\/my-favourite-oracle-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":1332,"position":1},"title":"My Favourite Oracle Blog","date":"December 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Some features in this post require a Diagnostics Pack license.I think there a quite a few decent Oracle blogs around. There are links to some of them over there on the right. But by far my favourite this year has been Kerry Osborne's. I think there are a number of\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 9 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":953,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/more-on-and-catpatch-sql\/","url_meta":{"origin":1332,"position":2},"title":"More on ? and catpatch.sql","date":"August 17, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was writing about the ? shortcut in sqlplus, I half-remembered that I'd discovered this while some time ago while looking at Oracle-supplied scripts (always a useful learning experience). So I went to check that I was right that Oracle uses this and couldn't find an example. 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