Stephen Shirley wrote:
> bryan ( admin at revoltingdigits.com) wrote:
>>> then ( restartoraclegui | mail admin\@revoltingdigits.com -s "oracle
>> gui restart" 2>&1 )
>>> Why not just add a cron task?
>> 0 22 * * * /path/to/restartoraclegui
>> should run it every night at 10pm.
Oops. Didn't read it properly, restartoraclegui is a function. Make it a
shell script, put it in your path (i suggest either ~user/bin, or
/usr/local/bin). Functions are useful for stuff you're going to run
yourself by hand. They're loaded into memory and so execute faster.
Outside of there, there's no good reason to use them that i can think
of. When being run by something other than you in an interactive shell,
you just end up with the same or more overhead than using a shell script.
Steve
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