You can call into SQLPLUS to execute SQL script from any shell script. This procedure shows how to structure your statements to LINUX environment for call into SQLPLUS from shell script.

1. Logon to your LINUX server as a user with access to SQLPLUS.
2. Use VI to create a executable file. Replace the connection string with appropriate username/password@SID values. Additionally, change the script you which to execute in this example we are executing “utlrp.sql”.

sqlplus sys/password@orcl as sysdba < < EOF @?/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql exit; EOF

Larry Catt
OCP