The shell thinks that "$database" is an environment variable.
Try instead "select name from v\$database"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baker, Barbara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Oracle 8.0.5
> Solaris 2.6
>
> List:
> I've created a script (ksh) called from elsewhere that shuts down the
> database. I REALLY want to echo the name of the database
> into my log file
> before I shut down. While "select name from v$database"
> works fine from
> svrmgrl interactively, it throws up in the script. I'd guess
> the $ sign is
> screwing it up. (I can get other commands to work within the script.)
> However, I don't know what to do about it.
>
> $ svrmgrl
>
> SVRMGR> connect internal
> Connected.
> SVRMGR> select name from v$database;
> NAME
> ---------
> TADENT
> 1 row selected.
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/ksh
> # $Id: stop_db.sh ver.1 10/02/2002 B.Baker Exp $
> # Name: stop_db.sh
> # Author: Barb Baker
> # Purpose: execute shutdown immediate on current database
> # (i.e., database pointed to by current value
> of ORACLE_SID)
> ############################################################
> echo "Stop oracle instance \"${ORACLE_SID}\" at `date` "
> ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/svrmgrl << EOF
> connect internal
> select name from v_$database;
> EOF
>
>
> $ ./stop_db.sh
> Stop oracle instance "tadent" at Wed Oct 2 16:24:59 MDT 2002
>
>
> SVRMGR> Connected.
> SVRMGR> select name from v_
> *
> ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
> SVRMGR>
> Server Manager complete.
