How to stop Sqlplus command from printing db connection details

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

Could someone tell me how to stop SQLPLUS command from printing the connection details in the console.

Below is the lines i get in console when executing the sqlplus...

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Mar 9 03:31:03 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL>       
SQL> SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

Thanks in advance

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Use the -s (silent) switch of sqlplus

sqlplus -s user/passwd@sid << SQL
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Thanks a lot anchal... worked out fine...