How Do I Use the Spool Command in Linux?
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How do you use the spool command?

In order to execute the Spool in Oracle, you’ll need to run it as a script (for example, if you are using Oracle SQL Developer, you may press F5 to run the Spool as a script). Your CSV file will then get created at your specified path.

How do I spool in Linux?

Using the Oracle spool command

  1. The “spool” command is used within SQL*Plus to direct the output of any query to a server-side flat file.
  2. SQL> spool /tmp/myfile.lst.
  3. Becuse the spool command interfaces with the OS layer, the spool command is commonly used within Oracle shell scripts.
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