linesize.sql

For a new set of db-servers I'm currently reworking our sql-script-toolbox.
Many of these scripts are copied and modified from other sources, but this particular is created by myself.
It's target is to set the linesize of sqlplus according the actual size of the unix terminal (yes, it's only for unix systems). So if you change the size of your terminal window, and you have this script in your SQL_PATH, just type @linesize and you use your terminal the best way you can.

It uses a defined mycpid to distinguish different processes at the same time, and I populated this define with a logon.sql which is derived from Tanel Poders init.sql out of his package TPT_public.zip

-- linesize.sql
--
-- mycpid must be defined before - e.g. in logon.sql
--
-- set linesize according to stty
-- handle with care, as stty is not consistent over platform boundaries
--

set termout off

define _linesize_cmd1 = 'echo -n "set linesize " > /tmp/linesize_&mycpid..sql '
-- for solaris:
define _linesize_cmd2 = 'stty -a  | awk -F''[ ;]'' ''/columns/ { print $7 }'' >>/tmp/linesize_&mycpid..sql'
-- for linux:
-- define _linesize_cmd2 = 'stty -a  | awk -F''[ ;]'' ''/columns/ { print $9 }'' >>/tmp/linesize_&mycpid..sql'

HOST &_linesize_cmd1
HOST &_linesize_cmd2

@ '/tmp/linesize_&mycpid..sql'

undef _linesize_cmd1 _linesize_cmd2

set termout on

Unfortunately the output of stty -a is not defined, so every OS provides a slightly different format and I have to change the parsing for every OS and sometomes even major release.

Might it be useful for someone else, too ;)