How do I spool to a CSV formatted file using SQLPLUS?
If you are using 12.2, you can simply say
set markup csv on
spool myfile.csv
You could also use the following, although it does introduce spaces between fields.
set colsep , -- separate columns with a comma
set pagesize 0 -- No header rows
set trimspool on -- remove trailing blanks
set headsep off -- this may or may not be useful...depends on your headings.
set linesize X -- X should be the sum of the column widths
set numw X -- X should be the length you want for numbers (avoid scientific notation on IDs)
spool myfile.csv
select table_name, tablespace_name
from all_tables
where owner = 'SYS'
and tablespace_name is not null;
Output will be like:
TABLE_PRIVILEGE_MAP ,SYSTEM
SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE_MAP ,SYSTEM
STMT_AUDIT_OPTION_MAP ,SYSTEM
DUAL ,SYSTEM
...
This would be a lot less tedious than typing out all of the fields and concatenating them with the commas. You could follow up with a simple sed script to remove whitespace that appears before a comma, if you wanted.
Something like this might work...(my sed skills are very rusty, so this will likely need work)
sed 's/\s+,/,/' myfile.csv