Re: Ontape and Shell Script

Con Woodall <cwoodall@vth4.vth.colostate.edu> schrieb im Beitrag <5fk575$b0d@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Terron Wright wrote: > > > I am trying to run in a shell script and I wondering if there is a way > > to make ontape skip the mount tape message. I was wondering if I could > > be pipe ontape to a return command. Could someone shed a little light on > > this subject if this is possible, please. > > > Terron, > We run a shell that does this by using an input file that has a couple of > new-line entries. We call it archive.input. > > The shell, run_arc.sh, contains the lines below looks. It runs a level zero > without requiring a tape mount prompt. > > run_arc.sh > > ontape -s -L 0 < /inf_dir/bin/archive.input \\ > >> /inf_dir/error/archive.out 2>> /object/error/archive.out Con (and Terron),You can improve your shell script using the so called here-document, for example: ontape -s -L 0 <<END >>archive.out 2>>archive.out END All lines between "<<END" and the line starting with "END" are used as stdin of ontape. In our example there is only one NL, that's it. So you can save the 2nd file (archive.input).