Oracle write to file

Question

I am running oracle and have a query which pulls some results from the database. I would like to write the results as a text file. How would I go about doing this?

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Answer 1

If you're running the query from sqlplus you can use the spool command:

spool /tmp/test.spool

After executing the spool command within a session, all output is sent to the sqlplus console as well as the /tmp/test.spool text file.