Exiting from sqlplus prompt if file not found

Question

I often execute .sql files from my shell scripts. If the .sql file is not present then sqlplus command logs onto sql prompt but stays there saying file not found.
Is there a way I can make sqlplus exit if the file is not found.
I believe one of the option should be specifying some condition in the .sql file.

Answer 1

Hi,
Tricky problem! WHENEVER OSERROR EXIT is the right command, but where can you put it?
If foo.sql doesn't exist, then clearly you can't put it in foo.sql.
Even putting in in login.sql doesn't seem to work.
What you can do is write a script that you know will exist, and always run that to launch your real script.
For example, you can write a script called try_to_run.sql, like this:
WHENEVER  OSERROR  EXIT
@&1Pass the name of your real script as &1, like this:
sqlplus  scott/tiger@dbanme  @try_to_run  real_scriptor, if real_script.sql takes arguments:
sqlplus  scott/tiger@dbanme  @try_to_run  "real_script arg1  arg2  arg3"