Problem running oracle script from command line using sqlplus

Question

I\'m having a problem trying to run my sql script into oracle using sqlplus. The script just populates some dummy data:

DECLARE 
  role1Id NUMBER;
  user1Id          


        

Answer 1

I was seeing this problem as well with certain scripts that would execute fine in a client like TOAD, but when being executed via SQLPlus with the @script directive instead of hanging, the SQLPlus client would return a prompt with a number on it which corresponded to the number of lines in the script being executed (+1).

For example, if we executed a script named 'doit.sql' that had 70 lines we would start SQLPlus with the appropriate command and enter:

> @doit.sql

Then we would see:

71:

Pressing enter at this point would return

72:

We were able to get these scripts executed by entering / at the prompt and pressing enter.