Thanks much for all your insight and help. It does appear that it is an issue of having an older version of ksh93 on Blenny. Now I have more evidence to tell my boss to retire that box. :) If not, then I can tell the Sys Admin to upgrade ksh93 to the latest.
As for getting the proper $? return code. I am guessing that since the sub-process successfully finished (regardless of any exit code sqlplus may send) it will always be 0. So I like idea of putting my code into a function, then grep -c for ORA-/PLS-/TNS-/... and then set a return code to the calling routine with the output on STDOUT or STDERR as needed. Cheers Eric _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
