As an example, I put the getOraPatch function in a shell script as you did:

zathras:bin jpiwowar$ cat gop.sh
#!/bin/bash
function getOraPatch {
[[ $mosUser ]] || read -p "Oracle Support Userid: " mosUser;
[[ $mosPass ]] || read -sp "Oracle Support Password: " mosPass;
fname=`echo $1 | awk -F"=" '{print $NF;}'`;
wget --no-check-certificate --http-user $mosUser --http-passwd $mosPass $1 -O $fname;
}

getOraPatch $1

Then, invoking the shell script with the URL in single quotes:

zathras:bin jpiwowar$ ./gop.sh 'http://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Download/process_form/p6809246_R12_GENERIC.zip?file_id=24754884&aru=10006133&userid=o-me@mymail.com&email=me@mymail.com&patch_password=&patch_file=p6809246_R12_GENERIC.zip'

--lots of wget output snipped --
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7206368 (6.9M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `p6809246_R12_GENERIC.zip'

100%[======================================>] 7,206,368 1.14M/s in 6.5s

2009-11-18 07:14:48 (1.06 MB/s) - `p6809246_R12_GENERIC.zip' saved [7206368/7206368]

Regards,

John P.

A couple of things to note about the script (that I had to do to get it to work or that I just changed):

1- I created a shellscript instead of putting it in my "profile". Obviously, I then had to call the function at the bottom of the script. So it ended up like this:

===
# Function to retreive patches from Metalink/My Oracle Support via wget
function getOraPatch {
[[ $mosUser ]] || read -p "Oracle Support Userid: " mosUser;
[[ $mosPass ]] || read -sp "Oracle Support Password: " mosPass;
fname=`echo $1 | awk -F"=" '{print $NF;}'`;
wget --no-check-certificate --http-user $mosUser --http-passwd $mosPass $1 -O $fname;
}

getOraPatch $1

===

(I'm hoping none of the characters got replaced by WordPress).

2- I had to search and replace the ampersands (& or & ) in the download url to get the script not to "go into the background".

But other than that, like I said, absolutely brilliant!

Regards,

John P.

I usually just resort to the tried-and-true "Zip the large file, upload the zip file, and hope the person on the other end knows how to use an uncompress utility." (don't laugh...I once was told my trace file upload was corrupted, and had to point out that it was zipped).

Of course, these days, the offical/correct answer is "use Oracle Configuration Manager." Specifically, the emCCR upload command takes a -diagnostic parameter that allows you to specify an SR number and path to a file on the managed system.

Regards,

John P.

Now how do I upload a trace file that is 100MB in size to my SR on Metalink?

Thanks!