Unix script in PL/SQL

I am building a txt file using UTL_FILE in PL/SQL and need to email it using a Unix script. How can I add the Unix script to the end of the PL/SQL?

Well, on the UNIX side of things I have simply used mail -s <subject> <email_address> < <text or file> to send mail inside of a UNIX script and it works fine.
or you can use cat <some text> | mail -s <subject> <email_address>
UTL_SMTP works well if you want to have less moving parts and have one script compiled inside the database. I guess if you already have the UTL_FILE working, it would be less work to just add in the code to mail from the UNIX script.
HTH
ReedK

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Using 11.2.0.3 on AIX.
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Could either use 2 utl_file.put_lines to 2 separate directories or 1 utl_file and cal script to archive file in another directory.?
Thoughts?
Thanks

user5716448 wrote:
What am I doing wrong?think how file name will look like:
SQL> select 'file_name' || to_char(sysdate,'DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual;
'FILE_NAME'||TO_CHAR(SYSDATE
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Unix Scripts and PL/SQL

I want to run a UNIX script via PL/SQL. I want the script to be run with no assistance from an outside source. The script contains a 'ls'. Is this possible and if so, how.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Christopher Racicot ([email protected]):
You can use an "external procedure", written in C, which then uses the C runtime library to access the UNIX shell. This features is
also known as "callouts".
We will likely add better native support
in PL/SQL for various operating system
activities in a future release.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Can you invoke Perl from within PLSQL?

How ro run unix script freom pl/sql - dbms_scheduler 11.2.0.3

Hi,
Using 11.2.0.3 and have a unix script which works fine.
Want to run this unix script every time a piece of pl/sql runs
have put below in but doesn't actually run it.
How can we achieve this?
Many Thanks
idea is that file we create locqally on server is copied to another via the unix script caled form pl/sql
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   program_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
   program_action => '/oracle/jm/data/dataout/copy_tcfile',
   number_of_arguments => 0,
   enabled => TRUE,
   comments => 'CREATE_PROGRAM test using a schell script.');Tried below but no joy
-- Shell Script (OS executable file).
/*DBMS_SCHEDULER.drop_program(program_name => 'por_copy_files');
DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_program (
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   program_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
   program_action => ' /oracle/jm/data/dataout/copy_tcfile',
   number_of_arguments => 0,
   enabled => TRUE,
   comments => 'CREATE_PROGRAM test using a schell script.');
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    job_name        => 'por_copy_files_job',
    program_name    => 'por_copy_files',
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    repeat_interval => null,--'freq=hourly; byminute=0',
    end_date        => NULL,
    enabled         => TRUE,
    comments        => 'Job defined by existing program and inline schedule.');Edited by: user5716448 on 03-Oct-2012 08:35
Getting message when look in all_scheduler_job_run_details
ORA-27369: job of type EXECUTABLE failed with exit code: No such file or directory
even thoug hfile exists
Edited by: user5716448 on 03-Oct-2012 08:50

When run for unix command line which o.k
get
AUTHSTATE=files
A__z=! LOGNAME
COLUMNS=132
EDITOR=vi
ENV=/home/oracle/.kshrc
HOME=/home/oracle
LANG=en_US
LC__FASTMSG=true
LOCPATH=/usr/lib/nls/loc
LOGIN=oracle
LOGNAME=oracle
MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/oracle
MAILMSG=[YOU HAVE NEW MAIL]
MAIL_HOST=prdikw01
NLSPATH=/usr/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N:/usr/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N.cat
ODMDIR=/etc/objrepos
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ORACLE_SID=IKW
ORACLE_TERM=vt100
ORATAB_PATH=/etc
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ome/oracle/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin:/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/OPatch
PS1=[$ORACLE_SID]$PWD $
PWD=/oracle/jm/data
SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh
TERM=xterm
TMPDIR=/tmp
TZ=GMT0BST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0
USER=oracle
_=/usr/bin/env
dba=/home/oracle/dbaWhen run from pl/sql
get
ORA-27369: job of type EXECUTABLE failed with exit code: 255
STANDARD_ERROR="execve: Exec format error"when try
dbms_scheduler.create_job(
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job_type => 'EXECUTABLE',
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There was this discussion on starting unix scripts from within a pl/sql stored procedure started on August 31.
All comments were targeted towards an oracle 8X solution.
Does anyone have a solution for 7.3.4?
Somebody mentioned something about using dbms_pipe package.
So, just to rephrase the problem:
- Need to execute any unix command/script from within a pl/sql block (stored procedure). Instance is oracle 7.3.4
Thanks!
Enrique

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You can try this solution:
enable in the the init file the parameter
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After restarting the istance You may write Your own code that, using the supplied package UTL_FILE, writes a file in that directory (es. my_script.sh)
Then, instruct the cron daemon to execute every 1 minute this command.
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I would like to start any unix shell script out of oracle.
I don't want use DBMS_PIPES, because then I always need a unix daemon.
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What version of Oracle are we talking about here? If it's v8 then I think what you're after is a pl/sql external procedure which I can tell you how to set up.
Andy
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Christoph:
I would like to start any unix shell script out of oracle.
I don't want use DBMS_PIPES, because then I always need a unix daemon.
Is there a package wich allows to a call similar to
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('/usr/bin/ls -la');<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Unix script in Oracle Pl/sql

I created a unix script which is automatically transfer the file from one instance to other .Now i want to call that script from pl/sql ,how can i do that
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Check the following link. It contains the steps to execute system commands from PL/SQL.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/oracle/server803/A54642_01/ch8.htm

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I know the question is little unclear, but I too dont have much inputs about that i'm sorry for that, just its a question of how
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Just how much work is involved, is hard to say. Many years ago I also wrote (more than once) a complete ETL system using a combination of shell scripts, SQL*Plus and PL/SQL.
If the PL/SQL code is fairly clean, uses bind variables and not substitution variables, then it should be relatively easy to convert that PL/SQL code in the script to a formal stored procedure in the database.
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Think of Oracle as an o/s in its own right. In Oracle we have a mail client, a web browser, IPC methods like pipes and messages queues, cron, file systems, web servers and services, etc. And PL/SQL is the "shell scripting" (times a thousand) language of this Oracle o/s .
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How to pass arguments to a Unix shell script from PL/SQL?

We want to run a Linux shell script from PL/SQL (10g). This is our code to run the script only and it works fine.
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Unix script output sql result to terminal

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I run the script below within a unix script. the query runs but only outputs the first line. I need the whole results output to the terminal.. please let me know if I am doing something wrong. thanks
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whenever sqlerror exit yy
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251     30330     PRD my table     oracle
335     11624     PRD     my table     oracle
469     2592     PRD     my table     oracle
849     8619     PRD     my table     oracle
934     40211     PRD     my table     oracle
955     15043     PRD     my table     oracle
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Steven

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Marcus, if you opened the Java sandbox to access any o/s file, you can call any Unix command, shell script, or program, that the Oracle o/s user has exec privs on.
Just remember that there's a very basic Unix environment when you make the call - the settings in the .profile does not apply. Thus PATH for example is not set. When making the call make sure that the complete path is given. As for the environment, that is a problem as you cannot set that and make the call at the same time.
In that case it is much simpler to rather write a Unix shell script that does all for you. Set the environment. Run the command(s). Format output. Etc.
Then you call that Unix script, via Java, from SQL or PL/SQL. Treat the Unix scripts like the Unix-version of stored procedures for your Oracle application.
Some technical details. When you connect to Oracle, a Unix process services you. This can be either a dedicated server process (servicing only your Oracle session) or a shared server process (from the shared service pool of processes).
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