Syntax error in my script

Sorry, I didn't see what you're really after.

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Generally, you can't place anything into the same line with the terminating EOF, except for a pipe..

You can process the output of preceeding commands along with the output of the "here" document using a pipe in the opening line (the one containing "<<EOF")

However, all processing must be done in one single line, because everything placed into subsequent lines would become part of the "here" document.

Example:

(export ORACLE_SID=DBNAme
ORAENV_ASK=NO
. oraenv
sqlplus -s /nolog <<EOF ) | while read line; do ...; done
connect username/pwd
set lines 4000
set trimspool on
set feedback off
set pages 0

  SELECT fieldid, field1, field2 from my_view;
        exit;
EOF

Since the line containing "while .. do ... done" could become very long I'd suggest creating a function to process the output.

Like this:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

function output_fn {
while read line
do
        if [[ -n $line ]]
                then eval $line
                         printf "[%-10s]\t[%-25s]\t[%-15s]\n" "$fieldid" "$field1" "$field2"
        fi
done
}

( export ORACLE_SID=DBNAme
ORAENV_ASK=NO
. oraenv
sqlplus -s /nolog <<EOF ) | output_fn
connect username/pwd
set lines 4000
set trimspool on
set feedback off
set pages 0

  SELECT fieldid, field1, field2 from my_view;
        exit;
EOF

exit 0

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Please note that all this would only make sense if you indeed must process the output of the preceeding statement (". oraenv"). Otherwise MikeOM_DBA's solution is the one to use.

MikeOM_DBA, Thanks!

What does backslash there do? It actually worked without the backslash

Thanks!