Linux, UNIX

During next year’s annual OGh DBA day (the 7th of June 2016), additional presentations will…

As a reminder for myself and for those who might have missed the info. Here…

I got intrigued by this Dutch article mentioning Docker and CoreOS. So on this Saturday,…

Just for my own reference Based on Tim Hall’s “dbora” post, but a little bit more to my licking, /etc/init.d/oracle (fna “dbora”). For info about the how/what/why, have a look a Tim’s post. Use “chkconfig” to install and set run levels in Linux. Use prio 97 97 so it will always start before or shutdown

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Small “howto”, because I always forget.

Today I needed to merge to Linux tar files on Windows. I downloaded the two Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). After unzipping them you get two tar files called

• OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file1of2
• OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file1of2

To be able to merge them and then “untar” those files, under Linux or Unix you would do something like:

 
cat #66cc66;">{file01#66cc66;">} #66cc66;">{file02#66cc66;">}  | tar -xvz
 
cat OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file1of2 OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file2of2| tar -xvz
.

…with other words, you would “cat” the first and second file into a file and then “untar”-ed it on the fly via the “tar -xvz”. In Windows you would do this via the following command, that is the first “cat” part, merging the files, via:

 
#b1b100; font-weight: bold;">copy /B #66cc66;">{file01#66cc66;">} #66cc66;">{file02#66cc66;">} #66cc66;">{newfile#66cc66;">}
 
#b1b100; font-weight: bold;">copy /B OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file1of2 + OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file2of2 OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz
.

the Windows equivalent of the Linux/Unix

Being triggered by Laurent Schneider’s post “extract xml from the command line“; I completely forgot about the C-based XDK tooling you nowadays can find in your $ORACLE_HOME. You, probably just like me, weren’t even aware, there were some (C-based that is). Most of these are executable’s and not “just” Java tools, although xsql is a shell script that still starts Java. More information can be found here in the “Oracle® XML Developer’s Kit Programmer’s Guide 11.2”

I mean in principle they are not “new”, they were there since 8.1.x, but now they are compiled executables which you can use on the shell prompt and or in scripting and that is, at least for me, easier than doing the same via their $ORACLE_HOME/xdk Java counterparts.

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