SQLplus decode to execute scripts

Question

I am writing a script to be run in sqlplus 11. I have a user defined variable called compression. If this is true then I want to run the script CreateTablesCompression, othe

Answer 1

SQL> host cat foo.sql
set scan on
define compression=&1
col scr new_value script
set term off
select decode('&compression', 'true', 'CreateTablesCompression', 'CreateTables') scr from dual;
set term on
@@&script

SQL> @foo true
run CreateTablesCompression.sql
SQL> @foo false
run CreateTables.sql