Spool file creating

Question

hi i am running a unix loop and in that creating a sql statement. now i want to spool the result to a file . but the problem is the spool file should have time as the name. loop runs after every 2 mins.
while [ true ];
do
sudo su - BATPBL<<!
sqlplus hr/hr<<!
spool /ankur/ank_XXXX #XXXX should be the time
select * from guard_usr order by guard_usr_id;
spool off
sleep 9
done
Please help

Answer 1

You could implement in your spool project something like this :
[oracle@g5 ~]$ sqlplus fas_admin
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Mon May 18 11:27:25 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> !export DATE=$(date +"%m_%_d_%y %H:%M:%S")
SQL> spool datefile.txt$DATE
SQL> select me from you;
select me from you
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
SQL> spool off;
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
[oracle@g5 ~]$ ls -l datefile.txt*
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 137 2009-05-18 11:28 datefile.txt05_18_09 11:23:39
[oracle@g5 ~]$also you can visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_(Unix)