RE: Somewhat Perplexed - Very Sheepish - Totally Ignorant:SQPLUS after 10.2.0.4 Upgrade
- From: "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx" <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx>, "alever@xxxxxxxxx" <alever@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:06:32 -0500
David,
What happens if you do:
SQL> !sh
(or bash, or ksh, or whatever your preferred shell is?)
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Barbour
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:00 AM
To: alever@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: Somewhat Perplexed - Very Sheepish - Totally Ignorant:SQPLUS after
10.2.0.4 Upgrade
Thanks, but the directory has both files and directories. But I just don't get
a list. So I decided to see if other commands which should return output might
work. I tried the cat command. SQL> !cat arch.txt Guess what, no output.
Simply came back to a prompt.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Alessandro Vercelli
<alever@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:alever@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Sorry, I was wrong: the directory in which you run the command needs to be
empty (no files and no directories).
Alessandro
>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,
>>
<cut>
>>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
<cut>
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