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Spooling to a file that includes the date and time [message #2913] Wed, 21 August 2002 04:01 Go to next message
Jon
Messages: 483
Registered: May 2001
Senior Member
I'm currently trying to spool outputs of a script however what I want to do is add a time and date stamp the filename so it will be easy to keep a record of when I ran the script.

at the moment I'm simply using

spool output.txt

when I want something like

spool outputDate.txt
Re: Spooling to a file that includes the date and time [message #2914 is a reply to message #2913] Wed, 21 August 2002 05:19 Go to previous message
Wijnand
Messages: 11
Registered: March 2002
Junior Member
set verify off
set termout off
COLUMN a new_val thisuser noprint
COLUMN b new_val thisdb noprint
COLUMN c new_val todaysdate noprint
select USER a, nvl(substr(global_name, 0, instr(global_name, '.')-1), global_name) b, TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,
'YYYYmmdd_HH24MI') c
from global_name;
column fname new_value fname noprint
SELECT 'my_log_&thisuser@&thisdb._&todaysdate..log' fname FROM dual;
set termout on
spool &fname
-- select * from emp;
spool off
prompt Your output filename is : &fname
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