Simple oracle cursor loop example

Intro
The script will create all the needed objects for this example, I assume you have a user with the proper permisions to execute the example.

Script

/*This anonymous pl/sql block is to drop the table, so anytime we want to run the script it will run without problems*/
BEGIN
  --drop the table
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE ('DROP TABLE number_text_pair');
  --if there is some problems like it is the first time so there is no table to drop just do nothing
  EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL;
END;
/

/*create the table*/
CREATE TABLE  number_text_pair
(
  number_value  integer,
  text_value    varchar2(4000)
);


/*create some test data*/
INSERT INTO number_text_pair (number_value, text_value) VALUES (1,'one');
INSERT INTO number_text_pair (number_value, text_value) VALUES (2,'two');
INSERT INTO number_text_pair (number_value, text_value) VALUES (3,'tree');

/*anonymous pl/sql block for iterating number_text_pair's data with a cursor*/
DECLARE
  --declare the cursor
  CURSOR cur_example is
    SELECT  *
    FROM    number_text_pair;
  /*create a record to store the data of the table,
  note the datatype of the record as row type of cur_example*/
  rec_example cur_example%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
  --open the cursor to iterate it
  OPEN cur_example;
  --loop until there is a condition to stop
  LOOP
    --fetch a row data from the cursor and store it in rec_example
    FETCH cur_example INTO rec_example;
    --if there is no more data in the cursor then exit
    EXIT WHEN cur_example%NOTFOUND;
    /*output the values of the cursor to the console
    note the use of . to access the fields of the record*/
    DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('Number value is: ' || rec_example.number_value || ' text value is: ' || rec_example.text_value);
  END LOOP;
  --close the cursor
  CLOSE cur_example;
END;
/
/*the slash is to instruct the program running the script to continue after a pl/sql block,
it is not necessary when you are executing a DML statement*/

Script output
After executing the script you should see

Number value is: 1 text value is: one
Number value is: 2 text value is: two
Number value is: 3 text value is: tree

A simpler and more robust version
There is another construction to iterate over cursors, it is the for construction, a simpler more robust pl/sql to iterate the cursor is:

/*anonymous pl/sql block for iterating number_text_pair's data with a cursor*/
DECLARE
--declare the cursor
CURSOR cur_example is
  SELECT  *
  FROM    number_text_pair;
BEGIN
  /*note the simpler construction, there is no need to open and close the cursor,
  also there is no need to declare the record*/
  FOR rec_example IN cur_example LOOP
    DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('Number value is: ' || rec_example.number_value || ' text value is: ' || rec_example.text_value);
  END LOOP;
END;
/

Replace on file with another in other directory in linux

Story

It's a long story, the thing is that my documents filesystem became corrupted and there were a lot of song that were not able to be reproduced.
I didn't know which songs were until I played them so do it by hand was not practical.
I get to create to scripts that allow me to replace all my favorites songs in my music folder with a backup of the song in a different folder.
There were some restrictions

• The songs had to have the same name
• The song to be replaced and the copy can be in diferent folders

The scripts

the solution is composed of two parts, a command that I run in console and a script, the command is

find -type f -exec ./replaceFiles "{}" \;

the script with name replaceFiles is

cp "$(find /another/directory/ | grep $basename "$1")" "$1" -v

How they work

When you first execute the command, for every file in the directory it is runned in it calls the script replaceFiles passing as parameter a file in the directory, the script search for the file within another directory by its name (basename "$1"), if it founds it then it copies over the original file "$1".

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