Sven, > I am not an experienced programmer so I am searching for something > simple. In the past years I did all my scripting needs with Bash > (Shell Script) scripts and SQL*Plus. Now more and more Windows > platforms, so Bash doesn't work anymore. Yes it does! You can install Cygwin on Windows and use a bash shell in that. http://www.cygwin.com/ Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l