Re: piping scripts into isql revisited

Posted in 1992

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Tue, 14 Jan 92 16:30:10 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!cpqhou!thomasr From: thomasr@cpqhou.uucp (Thomas Rush) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Jan14.201257.14449@cpqhou.uucp> Date: 14 Jan 92 20:12:57 GMT References: <753@bellahs.UUCP> <1600@das13.snide.com> Reply-To: thomasr@cpqhou.UUCP (Thomas Rush) Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation In article <1600@das13.snide.com> dave@das13.snide.com (Dave Snyder) writes: >In article <753@bellahs.UUCP>, jjamison@bellahs.UUCP (John Jamison) writes: >> Ok so I feel stupid. yes input redirection and piping worked without >> a problem. But I am told there is an undocumented flag which presents >> you with a ">" prompt or something, sort of a back door into isql >> in which you don't have all the menus and special keys, etc. And it >> will also take input from redirected input and a pipe. > >Ok, try this... > > isql dbname - Or, isql - - [but you might want to pick a database first off] thomas rush uunet!cpqhou!thomasr compaq computer corporation their employee, deep in the hearth of texas not their opinions.