Oracle-L: RE: How to tell Oracle the directories of script files

From: Browett, Darren <dbrowett_at_coquitlam.ca>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:19:51 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CAB3C.20030814101951@fatcity.com>

I have setup an environment variable (actually a number of them)

DBS=/ora/app/dba/scripts ; export DBS

In my case this is where the majority of my scripts are stored

when I am in sqlplus

SQL> @$DBS/scriptname

Darren

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Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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