Sqlplus set statement:format the output without specifying every col length

Hi ppl,
i am writing below query inside a shell script. Is there any way to format the output of sqlplus without providing the name of all the columns that we are going to output. for example, in below code i have specified the column width of the columns i want to output. but if the number of columns is large (or when we want to do a select * from...) then it becomes tedious to write all of them. Is there any way i can define display length all the columns to be of same size.. or at least all the number columns of one size, char columns of one size etc...
sqlplus -sa/passwd@db_name << EOF
SET ECHO ON;
SET HEADING ON;
COLUMN USERNAME FORMAT A20;
COLUMN USER_ID FORMAT A20;
COLUMN PASSWORD FORMAT A20;
spool filename.txt
some qry... ;
exit
EOFThanks
Edited by: KnockTurnAll on 25 Oct, 2010 10:41 PM
Edited by: KnockTurnAll on 26-Oct-2010 04:25

My SQL*Plus is a bit rusty, but I don't think you can for characters. You can set NUMWIDTH for a default size for numeric columns.
You could write a small bit of SQL to generate the required column definitions. You could even hit ALL_TAB_COLUMNS to generate a generic 'set every column width' file and run it as a separate sql script in your main script. Not sure if there is an upper limit on the number of Columns you can define.
Back in the day when we did everything with SQL*Plus scripts, we had a standard columns file that we called in all our scripts, just for this purpose.
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