sqlplus spooling: How to get rid of first, empty line?

Question

I'm doing the following spooling statement:

SET VERIFY OFF
SET FEEDBACK OFF
SET HEADING OFF
SET TRIMSPOOL ON
SET TERM OFF
SPOOL &pathRelations
START scripts/relations.sql &parent
SPOOL OFF
SET TERM ON

The scripts/relations.sql file contains a simple select statement.

Unfortunately, the spooled file contains an empty line as the first one in the file. This line causes trouble in our framework.

Of course I could get rid of these line through sed but ain't there a way to suppress its creation in the first place?

Solution

SET NEWPAGE NONE is the correct answer.

SET NEWPAGE 0 will cause a page feed, which is not what the OP wants.

Comments

[bitoolean]

Neither worked for me. Thanks anyway! However, setting heading to OFF will get rid of the empty line at the beginning at least, but I need the heading.

[alexherm]

Best bet is to select your own header because SQLPLUS is not good at formatting headers.