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unix command from oracle [message #600928] Thu, 14 November 2013 02:07 Go to next message
guddu_12
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hi

i load data from file to oracle through unix file system. file comes with ^mcharacter and to remove it we use dos2unix.
my load start whenever file arrive in director automatically so i want a system which can do dos2unix before running them. is there anyway we can run unix command from oracle interface.

please help

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Re: unix command from oracle [message #600955 is a reply to message #600928] Thu, 14 November 2013 03:53 Go to previous message
Mahesh Rajendran
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>> is there anyway we can run unix command from oracle interface.
Yes.
http://opreview.blogspot.com/2008/03/switching-between-plsql-java-and-shell.html
Though a little old, above article still holds good for the basics.

And in most cases, you actually need the other way around which is way simple.
Write a shell script to employ dos2unix and then load the data using oracle tools.

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