RE: Reading files on the server

[Jamadagni, Rajendra]

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

 

Raj

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bellow, Bambi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:59 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: 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.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gunnar Berglund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:14 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Reading files on the server

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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