Environment variable PATH and Sql*Plus

Hi all,
i have a problem with sqlplus.
It might seem not to be able to read the path environment variable.
I need to launch some sqls without typing their path (to put the path i should modify morre than 300 shell scripts), e.g.: @script.sql.
My shell scripts are invoked by the database using java.
Inside the shell scripts we have commands like "sqlplus -silent <login> @script.sql [parameters]"
So if sqlplus is not able to read the PATH environment variable, the command hangs waiting for something to do without the chance to close it.(it is silent).
I run RDBMS v8.1.7 on compaq tru64 Unix.
Can someone help me??
Thanks in advance.
Marco - Milan, Italy

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