Qshow in Unix

[Jones Allen (Van)]

I have the following code to get the instance name of an Oracle database
out of the powerhouse dictionary as follows, where "vpe" is the
powerhouse file name:

curdb="`echo show database vpe summary|qshow|grep ORACLE`"
curdb="`echo $curdb|cut -f3 -d\@|cut -f1 -d\/`"

>From the qshow output "VPE ORACLE ORACLE@dbuser@dev520m/dbpassword", it
extracts "dev520m".  
(Note that opening the oracle database this way does not use the
ORACLE_SID environment variable.)
This works, except in off-line processing, I can't prevent qshow from
sending a copy of it's output to the printer.  I've tried:
*	"export qsholist=/dev/null" before the line that has qshow
*	... echo 'set noprint\nshow database ...
*	... echo 'set report device terminal\nshow database ...
*	even the following:
rm -f qshow.disk
echo 'show database vpe summary'|qshow > qshow.disk
curdb="`grep ORACLE qshow.disk`"
curdb="`echo $curdb|cut -f3 -d\@|cut -f1 -d\/`"
rm -f qshow.disk

...nothing seems to stop the printed output.

I'm working on an aix version of unix.  The HP-UX operating system does
not do this.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks