sending query to sqlplus - sqlplus

Question

I have a script file which sends query to sqlplus and sends the output to some other output file.
However, this output file contain some info from sqlplus - some kind of greeting.
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Tue Jan 15 12:30:40 2013
Copyright (c) 1982 2011 Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning Real Application Clusters Automatic Storage Management OLAP
Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
is there some way to execute the script so that this greeting will not be as part of a file?

Answer 1

You can use the sqlplus -s option when you connect to the database.

Answer 2

Execsqlstatement1="select
'ZZZ|'
||count(*) total
from table1"
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus user/tneal01 << Eossql
set lines 80
set pages 50000
set timing on
spool /user/tneal01/SPOOL/output.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tmp
$Execsqlstatement1
/
spool off
quit;
Eossql
Now if you don't want anything besides the result in the output file you can do something like this in your script:
grep 'ZZZ' $OutPutDir/$OutPutFile.$today.tmp|cut -d"|" -f2- >$OutPutDir/$OutPutFile.$today.txt
Here is a full example on why this works:
#!/bin/ksh
today=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
OutPutDir="/users/ttead01/SPOOL"
OutPutFile="output"
#add sql statements here
Execsqlstatement1="select
'ZZZ|'
||count(*) total
from users"
#adding connection details here
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus tead01/rangers $SQLPLUS -s / << Eossql
set lines 80
set pages 50000
set timing on
spool /users/ttead01/SPOOL/output.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.tmp
$Execsqlstatement1;
spool off
quit;
Eossql
#check to make sure no ORA errors in the query
grep "ORA-" $OutPutDir/$OutPutFile.$today.tmp
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "LOG MESSAGE sql select failed"
exit 1
fi
#Seach for ZZZ and cut out junk and send only result to a .txt file
grep 'ZZZ' $OutPutDir/$OutPutFile.$today.tmp|cut -d"|" -f2- >$OutPutDir/$OutPutFile.$today.txt
#Remove the .tmp file if .txt was created
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
/usr/bin/rm -f $OutPutDir/$OutPutFile.$today.tmp
else
exit 1
fi
Now for the test:
bash-3.2$ test.sh
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL> set autocommit on;
SQL> rem set linesize 132;
SQL> define _editor = vi
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format = 'YYYYMMDD HH24MISS';
Session altered.
SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
TOTAL
--------------------------------------------
ZZZ|32
Elapsed: 00:00:00.17
Now let's look at the output .txt file:
bash-3.2$ cat output.2016-05-28.txt
32
bash-3.2$