https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219317#M2864 <P>"You can use shell scripts, python scripts, Windows batch files, PowerShell, or any other utility that can format and stream the data that you want to index."<BR /> <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/AdvancedDev/ScriptedInputsIntro">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/AdvancedDev/ScriptedInputsIntro</A></P> <P>Hope that helps <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:09:48 GMT guarisma 2016-10-03T19:09:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219315#M2862 <P>Hi,<BR /> Below article gives python script to extract database using SQL query. However can we write UNIX shell script instead Python Script?</P> <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/AdvancedDev/ScriptExample">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/AdvancedDev/ScriptExample</A></P> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:04:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219315#M2862 anantdeshpande 2016-10-03T08:04:53Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219316#M2863 <P>Why not just leverage the Splunk App for Database Connectivity to do the same? </P> <P><A href="https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2686/">https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2686/</A></P> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:02:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219316#M2863 dmaislin_splunk 2016-10-03T18:02:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219317#M2864 <P>"You can use shell scripts, python scripts, Windows batch files, PowerShell, or any other utility that can format and stream the data that you want to index."<BR /> <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/AdvancedDev/ScriptedInputsIntro">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/AdvancedDev/ScriptedInputsIntro</A></P> <P>Hope that helps <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:09:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219317#M2864 guarisma 2016-10-03T19:09:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219318#M2865 <P>There are some hardware resources issue for using heavy forwarder for DB2 connect. Thats why using script.</P> Tue, 04 Oct 2016 03:46:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219318#M2865 anantdeshpande 2016-10-04T03:46:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219319#M2866 <P>Thanks. Referred the same. Will try to implement incremental logic in UNIX shell script same as Python. Any document for shell script will help. </P> Tue, 04 Oct 2016 03:48:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Can-we-write-UNIX-Shell-script-for-Oracle-database-extract-using/m-p/219319#M2866 anantdeshpande 2016-10-04T03:48:18Z