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Enable vi Command-Line Editing in ksh for Oracle DBA Shells
May 24, 2026 / · 7 min read · Oracle DBA Unix Commands ksh Shell AIX Solaris HP-UX Oracle Administration ·Enable vi Command-Line Editing in ksh for Oracle DBA Shells Purpose Recalling and editing the prior command without retyping it is the single most-used operation in a long DBA shift on an Oracle host. On the Korn shell (ksh) — the default login shell on AIX 7.x, Solaris 11, HP-UX 11i, and many older Oracle 11g/12c …
Read MoreOracle Full Export via Named Pipe and Gzip in KSH
Mar 3, 2026 / · 7 min read · oracle shell-scripting ksh database-backup linux dba compression oracle-export ·Oracle Full Database Export Using a Named Pipe and Gzip Compression in KSH Exporting a full Oracle database can produce very large dump files. This script solves that problem by streaming the export directly through a Linux named pipe into gzip, compressing the output on the fly — without ever writing an uncompressed …
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