How can I return the number of rows affected in sqlplus to a shell script?
- by jessica
Here is my shell script:
# Deletes data from the 'sample' table starting August 30, 2011.
# This is done in stages with a 7 second break every
# 2 seconds or so to free up the database for other users.
# The message "Done." will be printed when there are
# no database entries left to delete.
user="*****"
pass="*****"
while(true); do
starttime=`date +%s`
while [[ $((`date +%s` - $starttime)) -lt 2 ]]; do
sqlplus $user/$pass@//blabla <<EOF
whenever sqlerror exit 1
delete from
sample
where
sampletime >= to_date('08-30-2011','mm-dd-yyyy') and
rownum <= 2;
commit;
EOF
rows = ???
if [ $rows -eq 0 ] ; then
echo "Done."
exit 0;
fi
done
sleep 7
done
If there is no way to get the number of rows, maybe I can use an error code returned by sqlplus to figure out when to end the script? Any thoughts?
Thank you!
