What is the content of a.txt?
If you used my script intact, the list command should have printed the
buffer content to that file. It looks like you did not use the
redirects and spool that I recommend.
In other words - fill the buffer, do NOT terminate with ';', add blank
line, then either "list [newline] / [newline]" or "run [newline]"
/Hans.
On 08/03/2016 2:28 AM, Nan Xiao wrote:
Hi Veerabasaiah,
It also doesn't work, and the output is:
$ ./test.sh
SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Tue Mar 8 04:18:58 2016
Copyright (c) 1982, 2014, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit
Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real
Application Testing options
SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL>
GROUP# MEMBERS BYTES/1024/1024 STATUS
---------- ---------- --------------- ----------------
1 1 102400 CURRENT
2 1 102400 UNUSED
3 1 102400 UNUSED
SQL> SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition
Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real
Application Testing options
BTW, I use sqlplus in docker container environment, so I am not sure whether this is a factor.
Hi Hans,
Thanks for your useful explanations!
Best Regards
Nan Xiao
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 07/03/2016 8:25 PM, Hans Forbrich wrote:
SQLPlus was originally a report generator. The idea of listing
the command would generally distract from the report and so would
not be as great a priority as simply executing the command. There
are an incredible number of useful reporting capabilities in the
tool, and it saddens me greatly that there are so few people who
actually know and understand the power of SQL*Plus, SQL*Developer
and now SQLcl (which does everything that SQLPlus does and a
whole lot more - see http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/tag/sqlcl/.
To answer your question ... bear with me, some concept stuff is
included:
When you type a command into SQLPlus, it is entered into a
command buffer. There are several ways to 'close' that buffer:
- A semi-colon, while watching for command block nesting;
- A blank line, if not in a command block
A semi-colon on a simple SQL statement is interpreted as 'close
the command buffer, and execute the command'
A blank line on a simple SQL statement is interpreted as 'close
the command buffer but do NOT execute'
Whatever is currently in the command buffer may be re-executed
using either
- / (slash), which means execute without listing
- 'RUN', which means LIST and then execute.
The LIST command is the inverse of '/' and simply lists the
buffer without executing.
There are also a number of crude, but effective, commands useful
for editing the buffer, including:
- # (buffer line number) makes that the current line;
- ap appends to the end of the current line
- del deletes the current line
- in inputs a new line(s) after the current one
- c/old/new/ replaces old string with new string, using / as
separator (fist char after c is separator)
These things are discussed in the SQL*Plus manual. Refer to
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQPUG/ch_four.htm#SQPUG383
and
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQPUG/ch_twelve001.htm#SQPUG023
HTH
/Hans
All that having been said, I find that I normally spool the
results output to a file and cat that file. In part because I
spool the whole SQL session to a log file for error analysis.
By way of example:
...................
[oracle@myhost ~]$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
sqlplus hr/hr@localhost:1521/samples.example.com
<mailto:hr/hr@localhost:1521/samples.example.com> <<EOF >>a.log 2>&1
set sqlprompt " "
set echo off
select count(*)
from employees
spool a.txt
list
/
spool off
exit
EOF
cat a.txt
...............
which yields
[oracle@myhost ~]$ ./test.sh
list
1 select count(*)
2* from employees
/
COUNT(*)
----------
107
spool off
[oracle@myhost ~]$
....................
/Hans
