Question

When i give the below command , it interacts with my database and give me the desired reults:-

        isql -Usa -Pbas11 -Dsmdb

       1>select distinct user_name from jobs
       2>go

This fetch me the desired result. Here bas11 being the password and smdb being my database.

I want to do the same through Shell Script And redirect the O/P of this Sybase command to filesay /tmp/output.txt
The Shell Script i wrote is this :-

       #!/bin/sh
       isql -Usa -Psybase11 -Dcnadb << ./ritesh.txt  > /tmp/output.txt

here ./ritesh txt which is input to sybase command contain :-

    select distinct user_name from jobs go

But i am not geeting any output in /tmp/output.txt after executing this Shell Script .
I am new to Shell Script . Can anyone help me here ?
Thanks in Advance .

Answer 1

In sybase if you want the query output in a file then do as below:

isql -Uuser -Sserver -Ppassword -imy.sql -oresults.csv

Also, if its shell you can do something like this in shell,

isql -Uuser -Sserver -Ppassword -imy.sql -oresults.csv << END
yoursql
go
END