Oracle in Unix

[Trina]

Hi everyone,

I was given a task to write an automated script in Unix. I read the Unix book
and it mentions a little bit about using the crontab. I'm not familiar Oracle
for Unix. Can anyone letting me know how does this crontab work? If you can,
can you give me an example. I really appreciate it.

thanks,
Trina

[sambavan]

There are a number of resoureces that you could make use to learn more about crontab. One of the best resoureces would be that of the man pages available in Unix.

Go ahead and issue the following command on the unix prompt:

man crontab


If you have any further questions, please let us know, we would be glad to help up.


Sam

[jrpm]

I suggest the book Unix Power Tools.

Cron or Crontab is not an Oracle product, but is a standard Unix utility for running batch jobs (command shells).

The Unix Power tools book is pretty good about cron and scripts/commands.