Export query to csv file

I am almost new to Oracle, been a decade since I last worked on it. I have query over multiple tables. I need to run the query daily and get a csv file out of it. How sure how to do it. Can anyone please help? In the csv file I need no headers etc. just comma separated rows.
I found this link which is very helpful, however, no matter what I try, the output file shows the query too. How do I make sure the output file has just the data and not the query?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/643137/how-do-i-spool-to-a-csv-formatted-file-using-sqlplus
Edited by: 857833 on May 10, 2011 9:00 AM

This is getting very frustrating. Below is what I type in my sql plus window.
set colsep ','
set echo off
set feedback off
set linesize 1000
set pagesize 0
set sqlprompt ''
set trimspool on
set headsep off
spool "FULLPATHTOOUTPUTFILE"
@"FILEWITHQUERY.SQL"
spool off
This creates the output file, where first line is @"FILEWITHQUERY.SQL"
then shows the result set rows, the last row in the file is "spool off"
Can you please show me an example that works for you? I never imagined generating a text file from tables is this hard. :((

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