Sometimes you use sqlplus and your line is longer than your linesize
SQL> select n||';'||x from t2;
1;one
2;twoPxMQztzLaqjWjGKOXIVIVrrHC
fJkTLbRgCPiENfWrrCjUMRSkmCfLUY
RdVASFacGtyEnUplOAXspDJZmSLPfg
ziKYQBKoHdkqGXoBCgkKuVOdxEvhQy
lZLQROFxIxOzqeQeFMGXcGkuJwnGGg
zvNSuCFMVxyQgboLAUpDcYnBsuVyXX
vFtWPICwqmcEdmzRRkOzzPethrqjRR
aBSOTOZiYfxcYSqbqFlGuVOBRdxjFh
ZcxJBvSCVXwONmS
prVzTykEfSsePyYwyLVoyYrVLynUzs
MLFWQxwUKNsVcYzUOAhslNldnBpITS
rxPlpJbLSjJqgxNxsGVsrYhkWAMufk
QnRayieEkSDYrNqyLejJuggADNxcgV
tszjJIYKCxPweNGhXsOFKGbMkTBPCf
DXwjBNgQYswbaNWBOEtSTHjIhdLAyM
nbhyhRKKdfaTTpTgHqQelVWmnkBHjA
ZTrGqdtlYAgoXNHnoryxHxVVyaMiGR
SjdVlRwMas
3;three
SQL>
There are two extra line breaks, one after ONmS and one after wMas
An easy solution is to set long lines with set lin 32767 longc 32767 long 2000000000… but, once you reach 32K, end of the game.
I come up with an easy workaround, using clob2file
create directory d as '/tmp';
begin
for f in (select rownum r, n||';'||x||chr(10) txt from t)
loop
dbms_lob.clob2file(f.txt, 'D',
'F'||to_char(f.r,'FM00009')||'.txt');
end loop;
end;
/
ls -la F?????.txt
-rw-r----- 1 oracle 6 Sep 26 13:40 F00001.txt
-rw-r----- 1 oracle 506 Sep 26 13:40 F00002.txt
-rw-r----- 1 oracle 8 Sep 26 13:40 F00003.txt
cat F?????.txt
1;one
2;twoPxMQztzLaqjWjGKOXIVIVrrHC
fJkTLbRgCPiENfWrrCjUMRSkmCfLUY
RdVASFacGtyEnUplOAXspDJZmSLPfg
ziKYQBKoHdkqGXoBCgkKuVOdxEvhQy
lZLQROFxIxOzqeQeFMGXcGkuJwnGGg
zvNSuCFMVxyQgboLAUpDcYnBsuVyXX
vFtWPICwqmcEdmzRRkOzzPethrqjRR
aBSOTOZiYfxcYSqbqFlGuVOBRdxjFh
ZcxJBvSCVXwONmSprVzTykEfSsePyY
wyLVoyYrVLynUzsMLFWQxwUKNsVcYz
UOAhslNldnBpITSrxPlpJbLSjJqgxN
xsGVsrYhkWAMufkQnRayieEkSDYrNq
yLejJuggADNxcgVtszjJIYKCxPweNG
hXsOFKGbMkTBPCfDXwjBNgQYswbaNW
BOEtSTHjIhdLAyMnbhyhRKKdfaTTpT
gHqQelVWmnkBHjAZTrGqdtlYAgoXNH
noryxHxVVyaMiGRSjdVlRwMas
3;three
Now you can produce files with very long lines. It would also possible to dump everything in one file (by using DBMS_LOB.CREATETEMPORARY + DBMS_LOB.APPEND ) or to dump all files in parallel…