As Scott said, in Unix you can use Input Redirection. If you are in
windows, you could always build the command as a .sql file and use the
sqlplus -s scott/tiger @myfile.sql
Command.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:01 AM
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>From the unix command line you can run:
sqlplus -s scott/tiger << EOF
select * from emp;
EOF
Viraj Luthra wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Why cannot I do :-
>
> sqlplus -s scott/tiger select * from emp;
>
> or sqlplus -s scott/tiger "select * from emp;"
>
> Both the cases I get :-
>
> Usage: SQLPLUS [<option>] [<user>[/<password>] [@<host>]]
> [@<startfile> [<parm1>] [<parm2>] ...]
> where <option> ::= { -s | -? }
> -s for silent mode and -? to obtain version number
>
> What is wrong above? I need to run the query from command line. How do I
modify this :-
>
> sqlplus -s scott/tiger select * from emp;
>
> Rgds,
>
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