RE: simple sql problem

After testing prompted by Jared's reply, you can use 1 of the 2 alternatives from Windows.

That is, under windows the following works: echo select * from dual; | sqlplus scott/tiger_at_abcd

I often use this type of syntax under NT to (say) log the time as below, but had never thought to try it with sqlplus. eg time example
C:\>echo.|time|find "current" /i
The current time is: 10:54:24.94

Hope this helps someone,
Bruce Reardon

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2001 3:25

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.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:01 AM

>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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