Part 2 - Using UNIX Commands To see errors from Alert log file cd alertlogdirectory; grep ORA- alertSID.

log To see the name of a user from his unix id (Provided your UNIX admin keeps them!) grep userid /etc/passwd To see if port number 1521 is reserved for Oracle grep 1521 /etc/services To see the latest 20 lines in the Alert log file: tail -20 alertSID.log To see the first 20 lines in the Alert log file: head -20 alertSID.log To find a file named "whereare.you" under all sub-directories of /usr/oracle find /usr/oracle -name whereare.you -print To remove all the files under /usr/oracle which end with .tmp find /usr/oracle -name "*.tmp" -print -exec rm -f {} \; To list all files under /usr/oracle which are older than a week. find /usr/oracle -mtime +7 -print To list all files under /usr/oracle which are modified within a week. find /usr/oracle -mtime -7 -print To compress all files which end with .dmp and are more than 1

MB. find /usr/oracle -size +1048576c -name "*.dmp" -print -exec compress {} \; To see the shared memory segment sizes ipcs -mb To see the space used and available on /oracle mount point df -k /oracle To see the users logged in to the server and their IP address who -T To change passwd of oracle user passwd oracle To convert the contents of a text file to UPPERCASE tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]" < filename > newfilename To convert the contents of a text file to lowercase. tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" < filename > newfilename To kill a process from Unix. kill unixid OR kill -9 unixid To see the oracle processes ps -ef | grep SIDNAME To see the number of lines in a text file (can be used to find the number of records while loading data from text file). wc -l filename

To change all occurrences of SCOTT with TIGER in a file sed 's/SCOTT/TIGER/g' filename > newfilename To see lines 100 to 120 of a file head -120 filename | tail -20 To truncate a file (for example listener.log file) rm filename; touch filename To see if SQL*Net connection is OK. tnsping SIDNAME To see if the server is up. ping servername OR ping IPADDRESS To see the versions of all Oracle products installed on the server. $ORACLE_HOME/orainst/inspdver