Pass values read from a file as input to an SQL query in Oracle

Question

#cat file.txt
 12354
 13456
 13498

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#!/bin/bash
for i in `cat file.txt`
do
    sqlplus XXXXX/XXXXX@DB_NAME << EOF 
        selec         


        

Answer 1

The solution given by @codeforester works. However I was unable to use it because it created as many DB connections as the number of lines in your file which is a potential impact.

To overcome this, I chose the below solution which may not be ideal but does the job with just one DB connection.

Considering the same data in file.txt

 12354
 13456
 13498

I used the below sed command to populate the above to a single variable "12354,13456,13498"

myvariable=$(echo "`cat file.txt | sed '$!s/$/,/g' | tr -d '\n' | tr -d ' '`")

Now below script will pass this variable to the SQL query and spool the data into a text file:

#!/bin/bash
myvariable=$(echo "`cat file.txt | sed '$!s/$/,/g' | tr -d '\n' | tr -d ' '`")
echo @myvariable
sqlplus /nolog << EOF
CONNECT user@dbname/dbpassword
SPOOL dboutput.txt
select column1 from table_name where id in ($myvariable);
SPOOL OFF
EOF

The output is stored in dboutput.txt (along with the SQL query)

cat dboutput.txt
SQL>   select column1 from table_name where id in (12354,13456,13498);

NAME
----------------------------------------------------------------------------  ----
data1
data2
data3

SQL> spool off