Use of host command from scripted SQL

From: David Moss <David.Moss_at_fdmgroup.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:27:41 -0000
Message-ID: <39132CDDC017F3459FFD0F26B3F8A09F1BA6DE@fdm-mail01.fdmgroup.local>

Hello,

I was playing around with SQL*Plus and found that I could include the host command in my scripts, being a UN*X person I styarted trying to get the result of some simple commands (pwd, ls, grep, etc) back into SQL, but got no joy.

What I'm trying to do is something like:

DEFINE my_var = HOST pwd;

Or

SELECT (HOST pwd) FROM dual;

Or somesuch... Is there a way to do this?

Thnks,

David.

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Received on Fri Dec 15 2006 - 03:27:41 CST