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Asked: 2026-05-28T06:09:43+00:00

In SQL PLus, if I want to hide the command on screen, I use

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In SQL PLus, if I want to hide the command on screen, I use at the beginning of the script:

SET ECHO OFF

But what about this command? How to hide also this?

In MS-Dos you could use @ in front of it, but in SQL*Plus?

EDIT:
I know the -S option for SQL*Plus, but the problem is that I am sending my script to the client and therefore I don’t control how they are running SQL*Plus.

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    You might want to start SQL*Plus with the -S flag:

    sqlplus -S user/password@db @path/to/your/script

    The documentation says: SILENT Option

    -S[ILENT]

    Suppresses all SQL*Plus information and prompt messages, including the command prompt, the echoing of commands, and the banner normally displayed when you start SQL*Plus. If you omit username or password, SQL*Plus prompts for them, but the prompts are not visible! Use SILENT to invoke SQL*Plus within another program so that the use of SQL*Plus is invisible to the user.

    SILENT is a useful mode for creating reports for the web using the SQLPLUS -MARKUP command inside a CGI script or operating system script. The SQL*Plus banner and prompts are suppressed and do not appear in reports created using the SILENT option.SILENT Option

    So, with the silent option it seems that there won’t be need to use set echo at all.

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