Question

I am having a sample file as given below. This is an SQL Loader control file:

LOAD DATA
APPEND
INTO TABLE XXWIN_TMP_LOADER_TAB
(  seq         POSITION(1:10)  INTEGER EXTERNAL
  ,h_record    POSITION(11:20) CHAR
  ,h_file_name POSITION(21:55) CHAR
)
APPEND
INTO TABLE XXWIN_SQL_LOADER_TAB
(  seq         POSITION(1:10)  INTEGER EXTERNAL
  ,h_record    POSITION(11:20) CHAR
  ,h_file_name POSITION(21:55) CHAR
)
APPEND
INTO TABLE XXWIN_SQL_LOADER_TAB
(  seq         POSITION(1:10)  INTEGER EXTERNAL
  ,h_record    POSITION(11:20) CHAR
  ,h_file_name POSITION(21:55) CHAR
)

I would like to select any number of table names occurring in the file which are starting with ‘XX_’ and ending with ‘_TAB’ and store it into an array using an UNIX script.

Please advice.

Thanks,
Arun

Answer 1

If the file syntax is not changing (the table names start with XX, not XX_):

tnames=`grep -o "TABLE XX[^ ].*_TAB" <file_name> | sed 's/TABLE //g'`
for tn in $tnames; do echo $tn; done

Change the <file_name> to the name of the file.