SPOOL command in 10g

Hello:
I'm trying to send results to a file and the output that I am getting includes the query.
This is what I've done to send to a file.
SQL> SPOOL DEPARTMENT.CSV
SQL> SELECT DEPARTMENT_ID, LAST_NAME, SALARY
2 FROM EMP_DETAILS_VIEW
3 WHERE SALARY > 12000;
SQL> SPOOL OFF
This is how my file looks after I run this query.
SQL> SELECT DEPARTMENT_ID, LAST_NAME, SALARY
2 FROM EMP_DETAILS_VIEW
3 WHERE SALARY > 12000;
20Hartstein 13000
80Russell 14000
80Partners 13500
90De Haan 17000
90King 24000
90Kochhar 17000
SQL> SPOOL OFF
Can someone help me out? I don't understand why the query is appearing in the CSV file.
Thank you in advance.

what you can do is create a file abc.sql on your system with
spool 'C:\a.csv';
select * from emp;
spool off;
and call this file from caommand prompt
@C:/abc.sql;

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No its not an advanced setup , its just i logged into database using putty, easy to use.
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Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Balaji K>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
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Directory of C:\Users\Balaji K
03/27/2011 12:04 AM <DIR> .
03/27/2011 12:04 AM <DIR> ..
03/26/2011 03:04 AM <DIR> .VirtualBox
02/25/2011 04:57 PM <DIR> Contacts
03/26/2011 06:07 PM <DIR> Desktop
03/25/2011 06:00 PM <DIR> Documents
03/25/2011 08:44 PM <DIR> Downloads
03/04/2011 06:06 PM <DIR> Favorites
02/25/2011 04:57 PM <DIR> Links
02/25/2011 04:57 PM <DIR> Music
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02/25/2011 04:57 PM <DIR> Videos
02/25/2011 06:07 PM <DIR> VirtualBox VMs
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C:\Users\Balaji K>sqlplus sys as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sun Mar 27 00:04:44 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
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PASSWORD VARCHAR2(30)
ACCOUNT_STATUS NOT NULL VARCHAR2(32)
LOCK_DATE DATE
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PROFILE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
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EXTERNAL_NAME VARCHAR2(4000)
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SYSTEM
ANONYMOUS
MDSYS
OUTLN
DIP
TSMSYS
FLOWS_FILES
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DBSNMP
FLOWS_020100
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XDB
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See now you can see the example.txt which we had spooled. Now if go with
C:\Users\Balaji K>edit example.txt command you can see that all the data is spooled into it.
And instead of exiting sqlplus, if you want to continue some other operations , then you can give spool off command .
sql> spool off.
Hope this helps you :)
Thanks,
Balaji K.
Edited by: balaji k on Mar 26, 2011 11:42 AM
Edited by: balaji k on Mar 26, 2011 11:43 AM

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user10903866 wrote:
For the Following SPOOL I want the GEN_DATE to be entered by the User at the time of execution of the SQL Script. Is it possible in SPOOL Command.Do you want the user input in the SPOOL command, or do you want it in the query?
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