Re: quiet mode for dbaccess?

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 c_l_h@my-dejanews.com wrote: > Are there any options to dbaccess that make it "quiet"? That is, that don't > echo "Database selected." "Database closed." "10 rows selected." when I do > this from the unix prompt: > > % echo "select * from table1" | dbaccess db1> > I use 7.22.uc1 on Solaris 2.5.1 No. You can get a limited amount of quietness by redirecting standard error to /dev/null, but only if you use a civilized shell (meaning Bourne shell, Korn shell or Bash, and (probably) not C shell which you're probably using given the % prompt in your example). If you really want a cleaner interface, go an dig out the SQLCMD program from the IIUG archives -- http://www.iiug.org. This is a biassed recommendation; I wrote it. It does require ESQL/C on your machine. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn