In article <958047457.1680146344_at_news.club-internet.fr>,
BLANC Philippe <blancphi_at_club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Le mer, 10 mai 2000, James Efurd a écrit :
> >I am new to Oracle and am trying to work in PL/SQL on v8.1.5.
> >
> >Is there any way (in PL/SQL) to access the command line for Unix or
NT?
> >I am looking for any information on how to do this, either through
> >staight PL/SQL or even through an external language if need be.
> >
> >I would appreciate any help.
> >
> >James
> in sqlplus you can prefix your command by $
> ex : $dir
> Philippe.
>
Actually the sqlplus command to pass commands to the OS is "host" which
on most UNIX systems may be abbreviated by default as "!" . The only
systems where the default abbreviation is "$" that I am aware of are
under OpenVMS though I believe you can set this.
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Received on Thu May 11 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT
