Re: Somewhat Perplexed - Very Sheepish - Totally Ignorant:SQPLUS after 10.2.0.4 Upgrade

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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com>wrote:

> David,
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> What happens if you do:
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> SQL> !sh
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> -Mark
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *David Barbour
> *Sent:* Monday, November 03, 2008 11:00 AM
> *To:* alever_at_libero.it
> *Cc:* oracle-l
> *Subject:* Re: Somewhat Perplexed - Very Sheepish - Totally
> Ignorant:SQPLUS after 10.2.0.4 Upgrade
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> Thanks, but the directory has both files and directories. But I just don't
> get a list. So I decided to see if other commands which should return
> output might work. I tried the cat command. SQL> !cat arch.txt Guess
> what, no output. Simply came back to a prompt.
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> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Alessandro Vercelli <alever_at_libero.it>
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> Sorry, I was wrong: the directory in which you run the command needs to be
> empty (no files and no directories).
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> Alessandro
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> >The "ls" command can give also a null response, if you are placed in a
> directory which has non files (i.e. an empty directory or containing only
> directories).
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> >If the returned prompt is SQL>, that colud be the right behaviour.
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> >Alessandro
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> >>Morning,
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> >>session and type (for instance) SQL>!ls - it returns to a prompt without
> >>listing the files in the directory. Anybody had this happen to them
> >>before? I tried searching on Metalink, but I don't even know how to
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