On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, sundar mahadevan < sundarmahadevan82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > I have done the following similar with sqlplus -s but cant get this for > rman. Not sure what i am doing wrong. i tried it with "echo -e" as well but > ... Hard to help when we don't know what happens with your script. Care to share the output and a reproducible test case? Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l