Executing crystal reports through a shell script

We are currently in the processing of building a POC using Crystal reports and was hoping to find a way to execute canned crystal reports via a shell script. The reason being we wanted to schedule the executing of the report through our scheduler where we would build in the dependencies.
Does anyone have a simple example on how to do that.

What sort of shell script? Can you provide more info?
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database, and would generate a report. A shell script has been created in Solaris which would
send in the parameters and call the pakage to generate the report. The parameters it is sending is
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The reasons it is to be executed on Prod db and not the Reporting database are unavoidable.
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I will be just guessing because you didn't provide contents of script and package.
The "Invalid directory path" as you said could be ORA-29280 due non existent directory.
Try execute (as sys or system) select * from dba_directories; (or select * from all_directories; as user which the script is login to) on both databases and compare the results. If there is missing your important directory then create it using create directory <dirname>; (from sqlplus and don't forget to grant rights for user).
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v_count number := 0;
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It's not the parameter in the cursor that is the problem, it's that you are trying to use static SQL for something that won't be known until run time (the owner of the table).
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   l_ref_cursor   sys_refcursor;
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SMITH
ALLEN
WARD
JONES
MARTIN
BLAKE
CLARK
SCOTT
KING
TURNER
ADAMS
JAMES
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