Sqlplus printing the result twice and with an empty line
问题 I write shell script and want to use sqlplus, when I write: #!/bin/bash result=$(sqlplus -s user/pass@DB << EOF set trimspool on; set linesize 32000; SET SPACE 0; SELECT MAX(DNNCMNT_ANSWER_TIME) FROM TKIMEI.DNNCMNT_IMEI_APPRV; / exit; EOF) echo "$result" the result is in txt file (I'm executing it as ksh sql.sh > result.txt ): MAX(DNNCM --------- 10-MAR-14 MAX(DNNCM --------- 10-MAR-14 it is automatically putting an empty line at the beginning of file and writing the result twice. How can I