RE: Reading files on the server

There are really two answers to this and it depends largely on what you want to do. If you want to check for the existence of a file and generate an error if it's not there, you can do something along the lines of...  

whenever oserror <do something>
!ls -l $DIR/$FILENAME  

Alternatively, if you want to do something that requires an action based on something inside the log file, you have to run the SQLPLUS command as a separate shell. Here's an example:  

sqlplus << EOF
userofchoice/incrediblysecretpassword
def somevar=`grep -i yourvar $DIR/$FILENAME|awk '{print $NForsomething}'` def somevar2=$SOMETHINGFROMEARLIERINTHISPGM select &somevar*&somevar2 from dual;
exit
EOF   HTH,
Bambi.

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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi all,  

I have a problem I hope you could help with.  

I have a job running on db server side as a cron and it creates information
(log files). What methods I have if I want to read those log files with some
pl/sql procedure etc (I mean from inside the db), are there any others than utl_file (which I suppose reads always at the same directory...)  

I am using 9iRel2 on Sun Solaris...  

Thanks in advance
Gunnar

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