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Search UNIX Man Pages for Oracle DBA Tools with man -k Purpose Where Google answers most "how do I do X in UNIX" questions for a DBA today, man -k answers the narrower one — what tools the host actually has installed, and what each one does, without leaving the SSH session. Production Oracle hosts often run in …

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 …

Disable vi Autoindent Before Pasting SQL Scripts on Oracle Hosts Purpose Pasting a SQL script copied from email, a Confluence page, or a ticket comment into a vi buffer over SSH — and watching every line shift one indent right of the previous one — is the most common and most frustrating vi failure mode an Oracle DBA …