Oracle-L: RE: Reading files on the server

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:09:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D6AED.20031114090934@fatcity.com>

Simplest .... if you know the format of the files ... use external tables.

Raj

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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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.

-----Original Message-----
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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