sdetable -o create_view command

[ToddMcNeil1]

I have batch files on a windows 2003 server that I would like to run on a unix server without making edits to the bat files.  The bat files have the "^" character to show a carriage return or new line.  For example,

sdetable -o create_view ^
-T PLACE_HOUSING_VW ^
-t PLACE,PLACE_HOUSING ^
-c PLACE.objectid,^
PLACE.GEOID,^
PLACE.STATE,^
PLACE.STUSAB,^
PLACE.PLACE,^
PLACE.NAME,^
B25002EST1,^
B25002EST2,^
B25002EST2_PCT,^
PLACE.shape ^
-w "PLACE.GEOID = PLACE_HOUSING.GEOID(+)" ^
-u ACS_5YR_2009 ^
-p ACS5YR2009

What would I replace the "^" symbol with to get these bat files to run as a unix shell script?  Right now, I have to take out all of the "^" characters and have the entire command on one line.  It works, but is extremely time consuming to fix and manage.  Any ideas?

[VinceAngelo]

The caret (^) is a DOS line continuation character. The Unix shell continuation is a
backslash (\). So to port your script you'd need to do a global replace. The following
would work:

 
 cat foo.bat | sed 's:\^$:\\:' > foo.sh

[Caret is regexp special character, as is backslash, so they need to be escaped;
the dollar sign matches end-of-line, so this won't alter non-terminal carets the
way "tr '^' '\\'" would.]

As always with Unix, there's many ways to do this -- You could also use 'vi' remove all
the terminal carets (:1,$s/\^$//) and concatenate the lines with auto-repeat of "J".

- V

[MahindaAbeykoon]

Vince,

I was using your instructions to create a SDE View from one to many relationship Feature classes posted on http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=158&f=2284&t=279941.

It worked well. I just want to thank you and ESRI forthis help, saving our time and hardships.

Mahinda

[ToddMcNeil1]

Vince,

I swapped out my "^" with the "\" and the view scripts worked like a charm.  So, thank you very much for the tip.

One more thing, can you create a shell script to run multiple shell scripts and log each one.  We have been doing this with a  bat file that will run each create view bat file and log each one.  It worked well and I was wondering if you could do the same thing in UNIX.  I just don't know the language.

Thanks,
Todd

[VinceAngelo]

There are four or five different Unix shells, and all of them have more capability than DOS
(it's not even close). DOS borrowed Borne shell's redirection operators, so a script to run
all scripts in a directory, logging both stdout and stderr to different timestamped files in
Bourne would look like:

 
#!/bin/sh
# RunAll.sh - Execute all *.sh scripts in current directory (except this one)
d=`date "+%Y%m%d"`
for s in `ls *.sh`
do
        test `basename $s` = `basename $0` && continue
        echo "Executing script '$s'..."
        log1=`basename $s .sh`-${d}.log
        log2=`basename $s .sh`-${d}.err
        ./$s > $log1 2> $log2
done

There are any number of good books and websites for shell tyros (though my favorite
book is no longer in print).

- V

PS: To put both STDOUT and STDERR in the same file, use "./$s > $log1 2>&1"