Pardon me if I have been unable to frame my question clearly.
I am trying to execute the following Linux command from Oracle Forms 10g procedure:
ls -lact --full-time /etc |awk 'END {print $6,$7,$8}'
In the procedure, I have the following:
command := ' ls -lact --full-time /etc |awk \'\END {print $6,$7,$8} ';
The variable command is, of course, declared beforehand.
The error that I get is this:
Encountered the symbol "\" when expecting one of the following
I shall be grateful for any assistance to solve this problem.
You can either just escape the single quotes within your string value by doubling them up:
command := 'ls -lact --full-time /etc |awk ''END {print $6,$7,$8}''';
or a bit more cleanly as you don't have to modify the original text (assuming Forms supports this!?) use the alternative quoting mechanism:
command := q'[ls -lact --full-time /etc |awk 'END {print $6,$7,$8}']';
Here I've used [] as the delimiters, but they can be any characters that don't appear in your actual string:
If the opening quote_delimiter is one of
[,{,<, or(, then the closing quote_delimiter must be the corresponding],},>, or). In all other cases, the opening and closing quote_delimiter must be the same character.