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How to find Unix Environment Variables from PL/SQL [message #46035] Tue, 04 May 2004 16:27 Go to next message
ajay
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Registered: December 2000
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Hello,

I am trying to figure out a way to determine the unix environment variable's actual value from PL/SQL.

e.g. in the Unix the $XXDATA is setup as /usr/data

for creating a file via utl_file, you need to pass the actual value of $XXDATA and at runtime it should determine this path correctly.

I know that host command can be executed from sql script but from pl/sql how can I do that.

Thanks,

Ajay
Re: How to find Unix Environment Variables from PL/SQL [message #46042 is a reply to message #46035] Wed, 05 May 2004 04:32 Go to previous message
Art Metzer
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Registered: December 2002
Senior Member
If you're truly only interested in UTL_FILE directories, you can issue the following SQL to get that list:
SQL> SELECT vp.value FROM v$parameter vp WHERE vp.name = 'utl_file_dir';
 
VALUE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/tmp, /usr/tmp/ora8i, /usr/tmp/ora8i/outbound
 
SQL>
If you're absolutely keen on running shell commands from PL/SQL, then have a look at this Ask Tom discussion.

Hope this helps,

Art.
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