Redirection question
 

If I have
print "sqlplus "\'"/ as user"\'" <<EOF" >> file1
print "@dbscript" >> file1
print "EOF" >> file1

Why would unix actually login to sqlplus and execute dbscript instead of just printing "sqlplus "\'"/ as user"\'"? Can someone explain the order of the redirection in the above sample? Thanks.

Which shell are you using? It works if you use echo instead of print? The resulting output should be
Is this what do you want to achieve?

That is what it is doing(get rid of the EOF in the code you posted). I want to know why dbscript gets executed. I am using ksh.

It works on my system, with ksh-93t. I don't see anything strange in your code. The print statement and the quoting should prevent the shell to execute anything. What is the output of the following command?