Have you tried the structure I used with echo on within the sqlplus session? _____ From: A Joshi [mailto:ajoshi977@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:42 PM To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx; william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; mwf@xxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: ** UNIX : set echo on in shell <snip>