On Windows I'm spooling the results of a PL/SQL loop to a .csv file from within SQL*Plus, executed from a batch file. Prior to spooling the .csv file, I want to create a windows directory to contain the file in a user's documents folder using %USERPROFILE%\documents variable.
Running the MKDIR in isolation from command line like so:
MKDIR -p "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\my-dir\my-sub-dir"
Creates the folder I would like i.e. C:\Users\christofflam\Documents\my-dir\my-sub-dir, but calling that code from within SQL*Plus creates a literal parent directory called %USERPROFILE% in whichever directory cmd.exe is running from.
The following code is being called from within the SQL*Plus command file:
HOST MKDIR -p "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\my-dir\my-sub-dir"
Which results in the creation of literal directory C:\my-cmdexe-dir\%USERPROFILE%\Documents\my-dir\my-sub-dir
How do I create the desired directory in %USERPROFILE% from within SQL*Plus command file?
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I am a newbie to Airflow and trying to create a simple task of executing a bash file(whose job is just to create a directory). I have given the full path of the bash file to be executed (with a space at the end) in bash_command. However, upon triggering the DAG from the UI, I see no errors in the log as well as no folder created with the name specified in the bash file.
Can someone please help me fix the issue?
When BashOperator executes, Airflow will create a temporary directory as the working directory and executes the bash command. When the execution finishes, the temporary directory will be deleted.
To keep the directory created from the bash command, you can either
specify an absolute path outside of the working directory, or
change your working directory to a place outside of the temporary directory.
I am creating a test directory in the Airflow home directory.
p = BashOperator(
task_id='create_dir',
bash_command='pwd; mkdir $AIRFLOW_HOME/test; ls -al',
)
I am on Windows.
I have a script file named basics.sh and here is what it contains:
cd opt-out-exam/abduvosid_malikov/IT
mkdir made_by_my_script
cd made_by_my_script
echo "Hello World" > hello.txt
so basically, basics.sh script file is responsible to:
go to folder opt-out-exam/abduvosid_malikov/IT
make a directory made_by_my_script
create hello.txt file with content Hello World
Right now. to execute this basics.sh script, I am going to IT folder and writing this command in the terminal:
./basics.sh
In order to execute this basics.sh script, is it compulsory for me to go to IT folder
OR
is it possible to execute this script file even if I am staying in another folder (lets say currently working directory is opt-out-exam)
The first line is a change directory command followed by a relative path, not absolute. In such cases, it is important where you run the script. (An absolute path would start with the filesystem root, i. e. /.)
If you run this script from a directory (I wouldn't call it a folder in this context) where the relative path opt-out-exam/abduvosid_malikov/IT does not exist, it won't cd into it. But it will make a new directory without any problem, it will also create the file and write a line into it.
So only the first line will fail if it's run somewhere else.
UPD: As Gordon Davisson pointed out, this means that you want to check whether the directory change actually took place or not.
I have following script hierarchy.
Scripts/master.sql
Scripts/GB/gb.sql
Scripts/GB/user1/insert.sql
master.sql contains simple #script to call gb.sql
e.g.
#GB/gb.sql
gb.sql contains below
#user1/insert.sql
The problem is that if i run master.sql from Scripts directory, i get below error:
unable to find insert.sql
Whereas if I execute gb.sql from GB directory, ir run successfully.
Can you please help me?
SQL*Plus directories are always reletive to the original working directory. Your scripts will need to repeat the full path from the working directory each time.
Change gb.sql to:
#GB/user1/insert.sql
The ## can be used to reference files in the same directory as the running file, but ## does not work with sub directories.
I have project structure like this
project
|app
|script
inside script folder, there are files such as 'run'
run file content:
#!/bin/bash
npm start
I want to run the file 'run' while I'm at the root of my project by typing only command 'run'. How would you do this?
This is sh file. In order to execute sh file on linux this file has to be executable.
Make sure this file has X permission.
If there is no x permission on file simply execute the command
chmod +x run.sh
Then execute the file by typing
./run.sh
For windows you need to create .bat file.
I'm not quite sure what you want but assuming you need a way to execute a file from node.js, you can use child_process module and child_process.exec method to start any executable.
Assuming the run file in the script directory is executable (if not, run chmod +x script/run), it can be executed by running ./script/run.
If you want to avoid having to type the name of the directory (script), you could append the script directory to your PATH environment variable. If you’re running a POSIX compatible shell (not csh or tcsh), this can be done using:
export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/project/script"
This will allow you to run any executable command in the script directory without having to specify the name of the directory, e.g., run.
NB: be sure that there aren’t common command names in the script directory as these commands can be run from any directory (including outside the project directory) after it has been added to the PATH. That’s also why I suggest adding it to the end of the PATH (so it’s the last directory that’s searched for executable commands).
I created a SCP script where it will take the source directory input from command line, but I see an issue with that, for example, If I want to copy 5 files under /var/lib directory then in my command line If I do /var/lib/* then each file is taken as a separate command line argument and my script fails, I can't even copy the whole lib directory because in destination I do not want that folder to be created. Any idea would help, thanks..!!