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Id: 7971
Status: resolved
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Queue: DBI-Shell
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Owner: talowery [...] gmail.com
Requestors: rjbs [...] cpan.org
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  Tue Oct 12 09:39:37 2004 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: the needed "/" before commands is not documented
It took me a while to figure out how to run commands in the dbish (other than SQL). The fact that I need a leading slash isn't documented. Someone on #perl pointed at the docs, which apparently were clear on this in 11.2, but I can't find 11.2, even on the backpan. (Maybe it was in DBI then?) The only lead is the synopsis for the "do" command, which shows an example. One line in the POD could save a lot of time for confused people like me.
  Thu Oct 28 15:45:42 2004 talowery [...] gmail.com - Taken
  Thu Oct 28 15:56:46 2004 talowery [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Thank you for the feed back. FYI, command prefix may be determined by the user, so not everyone uses / to execute. I'm just wondering where you looked for the command syntax? perldoc DBI::Shell contains the follow: go /go (Execute the current statement) Run (execute) the statement in the current buffer. This is the default action if the statement ends with / Show quoted text
dbish> select * from user_views/
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dbish> select table_name from user_tables dbish> where table_name like ’DSP% dbish> /
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dbish> select table_name from all_tables/ │ more
Do you feel something stating a command prefix is needed (such as / ) before a command would have solved the issue?
  Thu Oct 28 15:56:48 2004 talowery [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Oct 28 16:07:57 2004 Guest - Correspondence added
From: RJBS
[TLOWERY - Thu Oct 28 15:56:46 2004]: Show quoted text
> perldoc DBI::Shell contains the follow: > > go > /go (Execute the current statement)
What version are YOU looking at? http://search.cpan.org/src/TLOWERY/DBI-Shell-11.93/lib/DBI/Shell.pm There is no slash in the perldoc, and no slash in the source. Show quoted text
> Do you feel something stating a command prefix is needed (such as / ) > before a command would have solved the issue?
Yes.
  Sat Apr 21 18:46:58 2007 talowery [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added 10 min
Revised docs in new release 11.94
  Sat Apr 21 18:47:00 2007 talowery [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'