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SQL*Plus tips #7: How to find the current script directory

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in oracle, SQL*Plus, SQL*PLus tips 4 Comments

You know that if we want to execute another script from the current script directory, we can call it through @@, but sometimes we want to know the current path exactly, for example if we want to spool something into the file in the same directory.
Unfortunately we cannot use “spool @spoolfile”, but it is easy to find this path, because we know that SQL*Plus shows this path in the error when it can’t to find @@filename.

So we can simply get this path from the error text:

rem Simple example how to get path (@@) of the current script.
rem This script will set "cur_path" variable, so we can use &cur_path later.
 
set termout off
spool _cur_path.remove
@@notfound
spool off;
 
var cur_path varchar2(100);
declare 
  v varchar2(100);
  m varchar2(100):='SP2-0310: unable to open file "';
begin v :=rtrim(ltrim( 
                        q'[
                            @_cur_path.remove
                        ]',' '||chr(10)),' '||chr(10));
  v:=substr(v,instr(v,m)+length(m));
  v:=substr(v,1,instr(v,'notfound.')-1);
  :cur_path:=v;
end;
/
set scan off;
ho (rm _cur_path.remove 2>&1  | echo .)
ho (del _cur_path.remove 2>&1 | echo .)
col cur_path new_val cur_path noprint;
select :cur_path cur_path from dual;
set scan on;
set termout on;
 
prompt Current path: &cur_path

I used here the reading file content into variable, that I already showed in the “SQL*Plus tips. #1”.
UPDATE: I’ve replaced this script with a cross platform version.

Also I did it with SED and rtrim+ltrim, because 1) I have sed even on windows; and 2) I’m too lazy to write big PL/SQL script that will support 9i-12c, i.e. without regexp_substr/regexp_replace, etc.
But of course you can rewrite it without depending on sed, if you use windows without cygwin.

PS. Note that “host pwd” returns only directory where SQL*Plus was started, but not executed script directory.

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