Please answer. how to search for files

Hi,
We need an integration with SAP. They send us files in the format: yyyymmddhhmiss.atv
For example we receive following files:
20050503101115.atv
20050504101115.atv
20050505101115.atv
So, we dont know how to search for all files with extensions ".atv" in the directory.
We are using PLSQL. Is there some way to resolve with UTL_FILE?
Any other suggestion?

A possibility:
In sqlplus, issue a HOST command to list the files to a file:
ls *.atv > atv_dir.txt
Then use utl_file to read atv_dir.txt and parse it for the file names.
You could put the filenames in a pl/sql table and use that as loop control.

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