o/s system calls - can it be done?

From: <johnvue_at_gte.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 04:12:36 GMT
Message-ID: <6qls0o$5k7$2_at_news-2.news.gte.net>

[Quoted] Is there any way to do system (shell) operations within PL/SQL?

Let's say I had a PL/SQL block and I wanted to do a "ls -l" to get a directory listing. Is there any way to do that?

In C Language, I can do
  {
    x = system("ls -l");
  }

Thanks. Received on Mon Aug 10 1998 - 06:12:36 CEST