Re: Somewhat Perplexed - Very Sheepish - Totally Ignorant:SQPLUS after 10.2.0.4 Upgrade

Thanks, but the directory has both files and directories. But I just don't get a list. So I decided to see if other commands which should return output might work. I tried the cat command. SQL> !cat arch.txt Guess what, no output. Simply came back to a prompt.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Alessandro Vercelli <alever_at_libero.it>wrote:

> Sorry, I was wrong: the directory in which you run the command needs to be
> empty (no files and no directories).
>
> Alessandro
>
> >The "ls" command can give also a null response, if you are placed in a
> directory which has non files (i.e. an empty directory or containing only
> directories).
> >
> >If the returned prompt is SQL>, that colud be the right behaviour.
> >
> >Alessandro
> >
> >
> >>Morning,
> >>
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> >>session and type (for instance) SQL>!ls - it returns to a prompt without
> >>listing the files in the directory. Anybody had this happen to them
> >>before? I tried searching on Metalink, but I don't even know how to
> phrase
>
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