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I'm having a strange problem reading the output from sqlplus in Cygwin. Sqlplus is a windows command line program used to access oracle databases. My command looks something like this...
sqlplus -s <<! | read line user/[EMAIL PROTECTED] set pagesize 0 linesize 200 feedback off tab off select col1||chr(9)||col2 from table; !
This should output one line to stdout with the two values separated by a tab character. The read command should read it into the variable $line. On my Solaris system it works perfectly. In Cygwin, $line is empty.
If I remove the "read line", the output displays on the tty just fine.
I though it might be related to the line end characters so I tried converting them with the dos2unix filter. Didn't work. Neither did tr -d \\r. Both ways, $line still ends up being empty.
If I replace the "read line" with "od -c" to dump the characters, it shows the one line as expected.
If I redirect the output to a file, the file contains one line as expected.
If I try to read the output into a variable, I get an empty variable
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