RE: Oracle 9iR2, HP-UX 11i, (How) Can I...?

From: Freeman, Donald <dofreeman_at_state.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:25:37 -0400
Message-ID: <AFF54B073FF15849B53E32E67EE860760144EEC9@ENHBGPRI11.PA.LCL>

I'm guessing my first answer is not going to pass the quote test. So,  

This is a little indirect but:

host pwd > pwdfile.txt

Declare the file to be an external table and then select from it.

> Hi Everyone:
>
> Is it possible to determine the current working directory as I
> am running a SQL script from the command line?
>
> I have a script that I want to pass a file name, and I want the

> log file to be in the same directory as the script, which is not
> necessarily the same location as the passed file name. So I am
> trying to find a way to determine the current 'pwd', and feed that
> value to a utl_file.fopen call. Currently I prompt the user for
> the directory, but I'd like to find something smoother.

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