Re: [sqr-users] facing problem while running unix command fromsqr

["George Jansen" <GJANSEN@aflcio.org>]

There are I suppose several dozen shells and scripting languages for
Unix, all or most of which will handle this quite comfortably. In the
very worst case, I suppose you could write a Korn shell script into
/tmp, chmod it and then use call system on the shell script. In Korn
shell, something like

#!/usr/bin/ksh


for i in 3 2
do
 j=`expr $i - 1`
 old=bak$j
 new=bak$i
 for fn in `ls *.$old`
 do
   mv $fn ${fn%%.$old}.$new
  done
done


BUT does this really need to be done through SQR? SQR is a reporting &
database interface program with a few commands thrown in for talking to
the command shell. Using it for the task you name is rather like using
Korn shell to run database commands via file-here invocations of
SQL*Plus. That is, it is doable but awkward. Can't you directly use ksh,
bash, Perl, or one of the many other shells or scripting languages?




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