Oracle RDS Logminer ORA-01291 Missing Log File? - oracle

I have an Oracle RDS database I manage, and I need to be able to pull changes from the database for replication to another system. Once connect to the database, below is the commands I run.
EXEC rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.create_directory(p_directory_name => 'logminerlogs');
set heading off;
set echo off;
set space 0;
set pagesize 0;
set linesize 10000;
set termout off;
set trimout on;
SET TRIMSPOOL ON;
set feedback off;
set newpage NONE;
set define on;
exec dbms_stats.gather_dictionary_stats;
EXEC rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.alter_supplemental_logging('ADD','PRIMARY KEY');
EXEC rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.alter_supplemental_logging('ADD','UNIQUE');
BEGIN
dbms_logmnr.add_logfile(
logfilename=> 'rdsdbdata/db/ORCL_A/arch?redolog-99999-9-9999999999.arc');
*** REPEAT for all redo logs ***
END
/
EXECUTE dbms_logmnr.start_logmnr(STARTTIME=>SYSDATE-1,ENDDATE=>SYSDATE,OPTIONS=>DBMS_LOGMNR.DICT_FROM_REDO_LOGS+DBMS_LOGMNR.COMMITTED_DATA_ONLY+DBMS_LOGMNR.PRINT_PRETTY_SQL);
Doing all of that gives me the error
ORA-01291: missing log file
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_LOGMNR", line 72
ORA-06512: at line 1
I get all of the 'arc' files by querying
SELECT name FROM v$archived_log WHERE first_time > SYSDATE-1 and first_time < systdate ORDER BY 1;
I ran all of these scripts once and I was able to query v$logmnr_contents and get the results I wanted. When I opened another SQLPlus window and ran all of the scripts again, I get the error of Missing Log File mentioned above.
I'm not exactly sure what I am doing wrong here. I have also tried
DBMS_LOGMNR_D.BUILD(dictionary_filename=>'lgmnrdict.ora',dictionary_location=>'LOGMNRLOGS');
where LOGMNRLOGS is a dictionary folder I created previously, and then instead of the redologs when calling add_logfile I point to the 4 onlinelogs .log files that exist on the database and then run command
EXECUTE DBMS_LOGMNR.START_LOGMNR(dictfilename=>'/rdsdbdata/userdirs/o1/logmnrdict.ora');
This will start Logminer, but when I make any changes and commit to the database, when I query v$logmnr_contents those changes are not being returned.
I realize I might be rambling at this point, but I feel like I am very close to the solution; I'm just missing something. Any help is appreciated.

The problem was that for each add_logfile command, I was setting options for dbms_logmnr.new for each rather than for the first and all remaining redologs using dbms_logmnr.addfile.

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I want to export some data (i.e. some queries results') from an old oracle database into a file, values separated with a specified character or sequence of characters. A CSV file is an example.
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I tried to use sqlplus, but any program should be ok, as long as it runs on linux console and it's not java based :-P.
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I can't tell whether this set of SET commands will help (I use it, usually), but - try it.
set termout off
set trimspool on
set echo off
set verify off
set autoprint off
set serveroutput off
set arraysize 1000
set pagesize 0
set linesize 100
set long 10000
set numwidth 10
set feedback off
set colsep ';'
col empno format 99999
col ename format a10
col sal format 999G990
spool emp.txt
select empno, ename, sal from emp;
spool off
At the bottom, you can see some COL formattings; remove it if you don't need it.
Don't set linesize to that high number (30.000) if you don't really need it.
Also, there's the set colsep ';' which will separate columns by that separator (semi-colon in this example; can be any other character, such as | you mentioned).
In order to speed up spool:
set termout off
set trimspool on
run it on server, not on the client PC
Ok, for everyone that had this problem, here is the answer:
Make sure you have at least oracle client 12.2 installed.
If not, you can extract the files from instantclient-basic-linux.x64-12.2.0.1.0.zip (library files) and from jar archives from sqlplus related directories from linuxx64_12201_client.zip (client/stage/Components/oracle.sqlplus*). Those two zips are available to download for free (registration required) at oracle download site. I didn't want to install that version of the client because it could mixed up with local installed one. It's kind of an ugly hack, but at least no file on system was modified.
From 12.2 onwards the "set markup csv" command is supported, and the command was:
printf "set head off\nset feedback off\nset arraysize 5000\nselect field1, field2 from table;" | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/oracle12/lib ORACLE_HOME=/path/to/oracle12 /path/to/oracle12/bin/sqlplus -M "CSV ON" -S database
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SQLPLUS connection to different dbs

Hello i want to connect to following dbs in loop and execute statements on each:
conn support/support#sp0666to
conn support/support#sp0667to
conn support/support#sp0668to
Is there any way to do this in sqlplus?
Thank you for your answers in advance!
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set sqlprompt ''
set heading on
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set newpage none column tm new_value file_time noprint
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##main_statements.sql
...
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set feedback off
set verify off
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How to export half a million records from PL/SQL

I've a table with around 500,000 records. I need all records to be exported in excel. When I query I'm not able to get all as I was said as Out Of memory
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SET SERVEROUTPUT OFF
SET TERMOUT OFF
SET VERIFY OFF
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Prevent Spool to add SQL query in output file

I want my script to stop printing the SQL query in the output file.
I have tried different method, but its just not happening.
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SET head OFF;
SET feed OFF;
SET trimspool ON;
SET linesize 32767;
SET pagesize 32767;
SET echo OFF;
SET termout OFF;
SET verify OFF;
SET NEWPAGE NONE;
SET verify off;
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Could you help please , I want csv file to have just the result of the SQL query and nothing else.
Put your commands in a file. Then run that from SQLPUS.
So for instance make a file query.sql.
SQL>#query.sql
Now SQL won't put the query in the spoolfile.
This way SQLPLUS will listen to your set .. off commands. See the documentation.
*SET ECHO {ON | OFF}
Controls whether or not to echo commands in a script that is executed
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suppresses the display. ECHO does not affect the display of commands
you enter interactively or redirect to SQLPlus from the operating
system.**

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I have a problem with fetching SQL plans.
In the final form, I have to fetch them through PL*SQL.
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*CLEAR AND SET COMMANDS HERE*
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