Re: Running unix scripts from Oracle (PL/SQL)?

>==========Ken Niedermeyer, 5/23/95==========
>Thomas Dunbar (tdunbar_at_gserver.grads.vt.edu) wrote:
>: i'd like to be able, inside PL/SQL, to call various unix os utilities
>: or Perl scripts..how can this be done?
 

>: --
>: Thomas Dunbar 703 231-3938 http://gserver.grads.vt.edu/
>
>I believe that you can use the "host" command.
>
>--
>---
>Ken Niedermeyer | The views expressed above do not represent
>Computing Systems Analyst | those of my employer.... (but when do they?)
>Boeing Computer Services (BCS) |
> | NOTICE:
>Internet: | Lack of planning on your part
>kan9691_at_eeidf002.ca.boeing.com | does not constitute an emergency on my
part.

Over the past few months this has been a very hot topic. The answer has always come down to using the DBMS_PIPE package.

I don't know how we do it but this should be added to the FAQ.

Tom Received on Thu May 25 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST