The "ls" command can give also a null response, if you are placed in a directory which has non files (i.e. an empty directory or containing only directories). If the returned prompt is SQL>, that colud be the right behaviour. Alessandro >Morning, > >I've upgraded several of my databases to 10.2.0.4 and now I'm having a >couple of issues with SQLPLUS. It's probably pathing or environmental, but >I can't figure it out. If I want to look at the server from a SQLPLUS >session and type (for instance) SQL>!ls - it returns to a prompt without >listing the files in the directory. Anybody had this happen to them >before? I tried searching on Metalink, but I don't even know how to phrase >the query. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l