Originally posted by davey23uk
why is that making life easier?
This should be the one that i'm referring(from JULIAN)

Originally posted by Julian

$ sqlplus /nolog

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production on Fri Nov 19 10:27:34 2004

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SQL> connect / as sysdba

Why not in just one command:

sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

:-)