How to tell Oracle the directories of script files

From: Reuben D. Budiardja <techlist_at_voyager.phys.utk.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:09:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CAB33.20030814100924@fatcity.com>

Hello,
Suppose I have some SQL scripts in my /home/user directories, /usr/local/bin directories, etc.
If I start 'sqlplus' from console in /home/user directories, I can load/execute the script by doing:
SQL> @scriptname

But what if I don't start sqlplus from that directories? How do I tell Oracle to find the scripts in /home/user, then if it's not there in /usr/local/bin, for example? So that I can be anywhere in the filesystem when starting sqlplus and can execute my SQL script.

Just like the $PATH environment variables in *nix system that tell the shell where to find executables, is there a similar thing for Oracle?

Thanks for any help.

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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