How to call a stored procedure in oracle from shell

Question

I have installed cygwin and i have Oracle 10 g now i want to connect database from shell.can anyone help me??

   SQL> create or replace procedure get_area
2 (n_length in number,
3 n_width in number,
4 n_area out number)
5 as
6 begin
7 n_area := n_length*n_width;
8 end get_area;
9 /

This is my procedure i have created in oracle 10g.I want to call the get_area from shell

i am doing this to start that process subho@subho-PC ~$ #!/bin/csh-f

Answer 1

you can just do it like this

sqlplus login/pass @get_area.sql

where get_area.sql contains your SQL code

the last detail is to put an exit; at the end of the script oftherwise you will stay on the SQL > prompt