Re: Creating ASCII delimited files

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 14:00:29 GMT
Message-ID: <35f59548.3214161_at_192.86.155.100>

A copy of this was sent to "Joe Humphreys" <jhum_at_who.net> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Sat, 5 Sep 1998 09:57:56 -0700, you wrote:

>I'm using SQL*PLUS commands and spooling the data to create an ASCII file.
>The data comes into the file fixed format. How can I get it to come in
>delimited (commas or tabs)?
>
>

Here is a script that work in UNIX pretty well. You go:

$ flat scott/tiger emp

and it'll dump the emp table to stdout.....

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" = "" ]
then

	cat << EOF
usage:		flat un/pw [tables|views]

example:	flat scott/tiger emp dept

description:	Select over standard out all rows of table or view with 
		columns delimited by tabs.
EOF
	exit

fi

PW=$1
shift

for X in $*
do
sqlplus -s $PW << EOF > /tmp/flat$$.sql

set	wrap off
set	feedback off
set	pagesize 0
set	verify off
prompt	select
select	lower(column_name)||'||'',''||'
from	user_tab_columns
where	table_name = upper('$X') and
	column_id != (select max(column_id) from user_tab_columns where
			 table_name = upper('$X'))
/
select	lower(column_name)
from	user_tab_columns
where	table_name = upper('$X') and
	column_id = (select max(column_id) from user_tab_columns where
			 table_name = upper('$X'))
/
prompt	from	$X
prompt	/
prompt	exit

exit
EOF
sqlplus -s $PW << EOF

set	wrap off
set	feedback off
set	pagesize 0
set	verify off

set trimspool on
set linesize 5000
start /tmp/flat$$.sql
exit
EOF
rm /tmp/flat$$.sql
done  

Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
Oracle Government
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Received on Sun Sep 06 1998 - 16:00:29 CEST