Re: Get Directory Listing from PL/SQL

From: John Russell <johnrussell10_at_home.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:32:23 GMT
Message-ID: <qtu3etk8mqefldg55qdshfgrgnknia49m9@4ax.com>

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:07:17 GMT, cory-p_at_usa.net (Cory Phillips) wrote:

>Anyone know how I can get a directory listing from PL/SQL in Oracle
>8i?
>
>Cory Phillips

I believe you would have to call out to an external procedure written in most likely C. Alternatively, if you could arrange for the directory listing to already be available in a file (via cron job or similar), you could read it via the UTL_FILE package.

John

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Received on Sat Apr 21 2001 - 16:32:23 CDT