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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting piping oracle output to a file? Post 302116454 by samuelc on Friday 4th of May 2007 03:09:09 AM
Old 05-04-2007
Please explain this code snippet to me
Hi all,
I am new to shell scripting and want to know how this code works.

{
echo "set pagesize 0"
echo "SELECT empno||','||ename||','||job||','||mgr||hiredate||','||sal||','||comm||','||deptno "\
"FROM emp;"
} | sqlplus -s $username/$password@$database >> $root_dir/$csv_file1

Thanks in advance.
 

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