Oracle Shell Scripting by Jon Emmons

In this book, Oracle Shell Scripting, Oracle expert Jon Emmons discusses expert techniques for writing Oracle shell scripts. With this book readers will gain a functional knowledge in writing Oracle shell scripts.  Oracle Shell Scripting will teach readers techniques for writing oracle shell scripts to combine any number of commands to be executed simultaneously, or sequentially, with a single script. Readers will learn to write Oracle shell scripts in order to automate many of the common Oracle administration tasks. Readers will also learn techniques for writing Oracle shell scripts necessary to automate site-specific tasks.

This book will teach readers techniques for writing Oracle shell scripts necessary for automating a broad range of administration tasks on Oracle servers. In addition to learning techniques for writing Oracle shell scripts, the reader will gain access to over 50 working scripts. The techniques discussed for writing oracle shell scripts span all versions of Oracle, and will be applicable by Oracle administrators, database developers, database programmers and anyone else who spends time at a UNIX prompt.

Oracle Shell Scripting by Jon Emmons excels at elevating the skills and confidence in writing Oracle shell scripts of the UNIX novice. By focusing specifically on the tools needed by Oracle Professionals, the writing oracle shell scripts tutorial portion of this book remains succinct and is complimented by the provided scripts saving the Oracle professional hours of work! Other books on writing oracle shell scripts are version-centric and fail to thoroughly address UNIX and Linux topics important to the Oracle professional. This version-agnostic book, on writing oracle shell scripts, addresses the shell scripting skills necessary for the Oracle professional to master their UNIX environment and to simplify and automate their administration tasks.