Problems Creating a CSV from command line

Question

I have tried to create a csv file from the command line and get some unwanted lines of data in the output. Does anyone know how to create a csv without the extra lines from the command line.
I am using the following sequence of commands.
set wrap off
set termout off
set verify off
set heading off
set feedback off
set lines 900
set pages 9999
set newpage none
set embedded on
set colsep ','
set trimspool on
spool test6.lst
select * from rft;
spool off
When I run this from a script, I get exactly the data, which is what I want.
When I run this from the command prompt, I get an extra line at the start and one at the end of the csv file.
The data at the start is like this:
WMSP:wmsp:SQL*Plus> select * from rft;
The data at the end is like this:
WMSP:wmsp:SQL*Plus> spool off
Does anyone know how to keep these lines out of the data?
Thank you.

Answer 1

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The data at the start is like this:
WMSP:wmsp:SQL*Plus> select * from rft;
The data at the end is like this:
WMSP:wmsp:SQL*Plus> spool off
Does anyone know how to keep these lines out of the
data?
Well, a workaround could be to use one of the gazillions of utilities in Unix/Linux to remove all lines having the sql prompt (SQL>), right after your "test6.lst" file has been created.
I am using the "perl pie" for the same in the code snippet that follows:
$
$ cat create_csv.sh
#!/bin/bash
sqlplus -s test/test << EOF
set wrap off
set termout off
set verify off
set heading off
set feedback off
set lines 900
set pages 9999
set newpage none
set embedded on
set colsep ','
set trimspool on
set echo off
spool test6.lst
select * from t;
spool off
EOF
# remove the lines that have the sql prompt: SQL>
perl -pi -e "s/SQL\>.*$|^$\n//g" test6.lst
$
$ # run the script, dump stdout to the null device
$ create_csv.sh 1>/dev/null
$
$ cat test6.lst
         1,a
         2,b
         3,c
         4,d
$
$Note that the "test6.lst" on my system had the prompt "SQL>". You will have to tweak that regular expression so that it works for the prompt in your "test6.lst" file.
pratz