Error in calling SQL plus program with parameter from Shell script

Question

This is my Shell script. I am trying to call in the SQL plus program with the parameter and the shell script is registered as a concurrent program.
PARAMETERS=`echo $1 |tr -d '\"'`
DB_USER_ID=`echo $PARAMETERS|cut -d" " -f3|cut -d"=" -f2`
CONN_STRING=$DB_USER_ID
REQ_DATE=`echo $PARAMETERS|cut -d" " -f9|cut -d"=" -f2`
timestamp=`date +%m-%d-%y-%H:%M:%S-%Z`
timestam=`date +%y-%m-%d`
sqlplus -s $CONN_STRING @ar_statement.sql $REQ_DATE
chmod 755 statement.sh
. statement.sh
My Sql plus program is like this.
set pagesize 0
set heading off
set feedback off
spool $GEC_TOP/log/ge_ar_statement.sh
select output_file_name
from fnd_concurrent_requests
where trunc(actual_completion_date) = '&2';
spool off;
exit;
When i run the concurrent program, i am getting the following error:
ar_statement: line 14: REQ_DATE: command not found
Enter value for 2:
User requested Interrupt or EOF detected.
ar_statement.sh: line 1: Enter: command not found
ar_statement.sh: line 2: User: command not found
ar_statement
Program exited with status 127
I am not strong at Unix Porgamming and i would request someone who can
help me out as soon as possible.
I need this solution quickly and thank everyone in advance.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Can you put your coding between code statements, like shown in the FAQ. It will be easier to read.
Looking at your script, my first guess is that crontab will not find your sqlplus since your script does not have $HOME/bin in the $PATH. From what I understand, running .profile in your script will not work either because variables are exported to sub-shells, not to the shell above. You can call your script with a dot like . ./script which means that the script will run like it was typed at the command prompt. But it will be less confusing to define appropriate variables in the script. eg.
ORACLE_SID=my_instance_name
ORACLE_HOME=/my_path_to_oracle_home_directory
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
I remember some slightly different way of coding to handle the sqlplus return codes.
For instance:
sqlplus -s /nolog > /dev/null <<-EOF
connect system/manager
@ssm.sql
whenever oserror exit failure
whenever sqlerror exit failure
EOF
sql_err=$?
if [ $sql_err -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "FAILURE"
else
   echo "SUCCESS"
fiThe - in -EOF supresses tab's
Using connect will prevent ps from showing your login credentials
In some versions of bash the ending EOF needs to be at the beginning of the line to work.
Edited by: waldorfm on Jul 14, 2010 7:05 PM
complaining about putting code between code delimiters and forgot myself ;-)
Edited by: waldorfm on Jul 14, 2010 7:08 PM
Btw, if you "source" a script running it like . .script, than an exit in that script will log you out.