Can any one please let me know how to connect to oracle retrieve data and work around the data through shell script. for example i have to get salary of 5 employees and add 500 to them and print them.
thanks a ton in advance.
Sriram

Sure! I don't have any examples in front of me, but the Oracle command line client is sqlplus. There are others, but I think sqlplus is the one that ships with Oracle. You should be able to script something that uses sqlplus to get what you need from the database and then manipulate it with bash.

Can you add 500 to my salary while you're at it?

Thx!
-G

Here's a link that might get you started:

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/SQL*Plus_...t_come_from.3F

Experiment with care!

step by step procedure
to Connect to oracle database from unix shell script

http://www.scripterworld.com/2009/08...from-unix.html