I’m installing ODI agent on our database server using OUI. I selected the “Server” option at install time to get the Agent only, but looking in oracledi/bin odiparams.sh is missing: $ls -l *.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 685 Nov 21 15:58 agent.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 908 Nov 21 15:58 agentscheduler.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 707 Nov 21 15:58 agentstop.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 941 Nov 21 15:58 agentweb.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 odiadm dba 724 Nov 21 15:58 jython.

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If you work with a file in Windows and Unix at some point you might end up with windows line feed characters in your Unix file. It’ll look like this: one line of text ^M next line ^M and next line with more ^M To remove the ^M character, load the file into vi on unix and enter as a line command the following: :1,$s/^M// but instead of typing ^M do Ctrl-V Ctrl-M to get the charaters

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Following my previous work on configuring Publisher, I wanted to note down where the changes were written to. The -mname syntax of the unix find command comes in handy here: find /app/oracle/product/obiee -mtime -1 Shows me all files under the specified path which were modified in the last 1 day and helpfully throws up: /app/oracle/product/obiee/xmlp/XMLP/Admin/DataSource/datasources.xml

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