Calling unix command or windows command

from PL/SQL
Posted on April 28, 2013
Its useful to call UNIX/Windows command directly from PL/SQL. One of method is to use Java language
embedded in database.
Java code
First we need to create java code inside database. Java is responsible for calling hosts programs and returns
output from the called program back to pl/sql
create or replace and compile java source named "Host" as
import java.io.*;
public class Host {
public static void runCmd(String command) {
try {
String[] strCmd;
if (isWindows()) {
strCmd = new String[4];
strCmd[0] = "C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe";
strCmd[1] = "/y";
strCmd[2] = "/c";
strCmd[3] = command;
}
else {
strCmd = new String[3];
strCmd[0] = "/bin/sh";
strCmd[1] = "-c";
strCmd[2] = command;
}

final Process pr = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(strCmd);
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
BufferedReader br_in = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(pr.getInputStream()));
String buff = null;
while ((buff = br_in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(buff);
try {Thread.sleep(100); } catch(Exception e) {}
}
br_in.close();
}
catch (IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("Exception caught printing process output.");
ioe.printStackTrace();
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}
}
}).start();

new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
BufferedReader br_err = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(pr.getErrorStream()));
String buff = null;
while ((buff = br_err.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(buff);
try {Thread.sleep(100); } catch(Exception e) {}
}
br_err.close();
}
catch (IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("Exception caught printing process error.");
ioe.printStackTrace();
}
}
}).start();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex.getLocalizedMessage());
}
}

public static boolean isWindows() {
if (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("windows")
!= -1)
return true;
else
return false;
}
};
/
PL/SQL wrapper
Then we need to create PL/SQL wrapper to call java code
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE host_command (p_command IN VARCHAR2)
AS language JAVA
name 'Host.runCmd(java.lang.String)';
/
Privileges
Unix
BEGIN
dbms_java.grant_permission
( 'TOMASZ',
'SYS:java.io.FilePermission',
'/bin/sh',
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'execute' );
END;
/
Windows
BEGIN
dbms_java.grant_permission
( 'TOMASZ',
'SYS:java.io.FilePermission',
'C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe',
'execute' );
END;
/
Test
Unix
SET serveroutput ON
call dbms_java.set_output(1000000);

BEGIN
host_command('ls');
END;
/

Call completed.
/ora01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/dbs
PL/SQL PROCEDURE successfully completed.
Windows
SET serveroutput ON
call dbms_java.set_output(1000000);

BEGIN
host_command('dir');
END;
/

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Have a fun
Tomasz
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Ray C
on September 12, 2013 at 7:45 pm said:
Thanks Tomasz. Can you please tell me more about giving the grant.
WHat exactly is TOMASZ in the grant permission procedure. Is it a
database user or OS user ?
admin
on September 12, 2013 at 8:19 pm said:
TOMASZ is user name
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