Everybody who works in Oracle Database knows how it's powerful but it also has its limitations.By installing the readline wrapper utility (rlwrap) we can able to use the "up arrow" and "down arrow" keys to display the command line history for all SQL*Plus commands and also it has the ability to edit the SQL*Plus commands. To install the rlwrap in the Centos Environment. Install rlwrap as a root user. Use the below commands to install rlwrap wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-7.noarch yum install rlwrap HOW TO USE IT FOR SQL*Plus rlwrap sqlplus / as sysdba Also, we can use rlwrap for other commands too