Calling UNIX command from PL/SQL Procedure

Is there a way to call a UNIX command (exa. ls) from within a PL/SQL stored procedure? Looking through the various packages, I didn't see anything that would give me this ability.
I also looked through all the previous questions and nothing looked encouraging.
Thanks in advance,
Russ

Russ,
I thought I'd read a similar question awhile ago and did a search on the word host in this forum and found the following from July 9th that might help you:
http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum88/HTML/001611.html
In that post I think the link listed by Barbara Boehmer in has changed to:
]http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:24579::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F4950_P8_CRITERIA:16212348050,{host}
It looks like they give solutions for Oracle 7, 8 and 8i.
Good site Barbara, I've added it to my bookmarks.
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