Re: INFORMIX & UNIX

Posted in 1996

Billy Wheeler — 8 Mar 1996 02:08:06 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

At 04:44 PM 3/7/96 GMT, Curt Jones wrote: >Neebie Question: Is it possible to call a UNIX command or program from >within INFORMIX? If it is, how ? an example would be helpfull. Please >respond to lfelts@pyramid.com. Thank you. What's a "Neebie", anyway? :) Try: RUN "your_script.sh" or LET run_stmt = "ls -liags | ", "wc -l" RUN run_stmt HTH. -- Cheers, Billy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za +27 11 803 2151 p.o. box 3463, rivonia, rsa, 2128 +27 83 250 2324 "Have you got it yet?" (c) Kitsch 'n' Sync Productions 1996 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------