Not an option in this case. From: Radoulov, Dimitre [mailto:cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:53 PM To: Ric Van Dyke; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Softball (I hope) - Current Directory in SQLPlus On 18/12/2013 21:48, Ric Van Dyke wrote: I thought this would be easy but I'm not figuring it out nor am I able to find it in all my searching. I want to create a directory for the current directory. I want to do this programmatically in SQLPlus with or without PL/PQL is fine. CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY SQL_FILE_LOCATION AS <current directory here>; It doesn't appear to be in SYS_CONTEXT. Yes I know I can do a HOST CD in SQLPlus to see the current directory, but how to I put the output of that that into the CREATE command? Hi, why don't you set/export it as shell variable before entering sqlplus? Regards Dimitre