Hi. I use this: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/8i/ShellCommandsFromPLSQL.php Of course, the DBMS_SCHEDULER scheduler can run external jobs also. Cheers Tim... On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Ron Chennells <ron.chennells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Long running thread on this from Ask Tom site > > http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:16212348050 > > Quoting cbbakshi@xxxxxxx: > >> Hi, >> >> Kindly tell me how to call a shell script from pl/sql. Give examples if >> possible. >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Chandra Bhushan Bakshi >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > Ron > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l