Extracting SCN range from an online redo log or archived redo log

I can’t imagine that this would be useful in a well managed system, but if you find yourself with a “raw” log file that is not in the dictionary, you can at least extract the SCN range it encompasses using what is below.

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[oracle@dell11gr1 ~]$ strings -a arch1.arc | head -20 | grep SCN | awk -F "," '{split($3,t," ");split(t[2],t2,"-");printf("Start SCN = %d, End SCN = %d\n",strtonum(t2[1]),strtonum(t2[2]))}'
Start SCN = 5345720, End SCN = 5350856
[oracle@dell11gr1 ~]$ 

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