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hide a password in tcl
Hi I know I may sound naive but is it possible to hide/mask the user input in a gets stdin command. I want to do this in my script which accepts user input for password puts -nonewline stdout "Please enter the password: "; #want to mask/hide the input text here gets stdin wspasswd; I tried... -
executing shell script in tcl and passing parameters
Hi all My requirement is to call a shell script within TCL which runs some sql grant scripts on a particular schema/database based on some parameters passed into the shell script Is the command as simple as set param1 username set param2 password set param3 sid exec /tmp/bin/test_shell.sh... -
substring in TCL
Hi Is there an easy way to perform substring operations in TCL For eg if I have a file with something like # Ingore this #ignore a1:a2:a3 b1:b2:b3 And 1. I want to ignore the lines with # 2. I want to pick each value between the ':' for each line and assign them to different variables... -
Invoke SQL script within TCL
Hi Is there any inbuilt functionality of TCL where I can invoke and run an .sql script on a selected Target schema and then return control back to the TCL script? SOmething like set orauser scott set orapwd tiger set SID orcl # execution of SQL script by some logic using above params I...
