[Lazarus] Handy script for Firebird users

[Henry Vermaak]

2008/4/30 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> Joost van der Sluis wrote:
>  > And you didn't write it in Pascal because.... ?
>  >
>  > Joost
>
>  Because the deployment PC's will not have FPC on them.
>  Ummm... Then again, it takes all the parameters it needs for
>  customization. Also, if I make it a console app, it will be
>  cross-platform to. :)
>
>  How to you handle standard input like was done in the script?
>
>  ------------copy-------------
>
> echo -n "Creating the database $database ..."
>  ${ISQL} << EOF
>  set sql dialect 3;
>  CREATE DATABASE "$database";
>  commit;
>  EOF
>  if [ ! $? = 0 ]; then
>    echo "Failed."
>  else
>    echo "Done."
>  fi
>  ------------end-------------

it's just feeding the sql program a string (heredoc), then checking
the result.  you don't need to do anything special to transcribe this
to pascal :)

henry