UTL_FILE saving in local machine

Question

Hello, I wanted to save all the functions,procedures,packages in my local machine. I tried with SPOOL but with spool im not sure to get the filename and save it. So i tried

Answer 1

You can use dbms_output.put_line in your PLSQL together with SPOOL to get the result. For example like the below.This prints ename, sal in the file_name.txt file.

    set serveroutput on  
    Spool e:\file_name.txt  
    Begin  
      for c in (Select ename, sal from emp)  
      loop  
        dbms_output.put_line(c.ename || ',' || c.sal);  
      end loop;  
    End;  
    /  
    spool off

for your example, you can use the below

    set serveroutput on  
    Spool C:\Workspace\BE\DB\Funktionen\Function1.sql
    BEGIN 
    FOR a IN (SELECT distinct name,type 
    FROM all_source 
    WHERE type IN 
    ('FUNCTION')
    AND OWNER='HR')
    LOOP
    FOR b IN (SELECT text FROM all_source WHERE TYPE IN('FUNCTION')AND OWNER = 'HR' AND 
    NAME = (a.name))
    LOOP
    dbms_output.enable;
    dbms_output.put_line(b.text);

    END LOOP;
    END LOOP;
    EXCEPTION
    WHEN others THEN
    dbms_output.put_line( 'ERROR: Invalid PATH FOR file.'||sqlerrm);
    END;
    /  
    spool off

You can generate one master file which has plsql for all the functions individually which you can run for all the functions

        set serveroutput on
    spool C:\Workspace\BE\DB\Funktionen\function12.sql
    begin
    FOR a IN (SELECT distinct name,type 
        FROM all_source 
        WHERE type IN 
        ('FUNCTION')
        AND OWNER='HR')
        loop
     dbms_output.enable  ; 
    dbms_output.put_line('set serveroutput on  
        Spool C:\Workspace\BE\DB\Funktionen\'||a.name||'.sql
        BEGIN 
        FOR a1 IN (SELECT distinct name,type 
        FROM all_source 
        WHERE type IN 
        (''FUNCTION'')
        AND OWNER=''HR'' and name='''||a.name||''')
        LOOP
        FOR b IN (SELECT text FROM all_source WHERE TYPE IN(''FUNCTION'')AND OWNER = ''HR'' AND 
        NAME = '''||a.name||'''))
        LOOP
        dbms_output.enable;
        dbms_output.put_line(b.text);

        END LOOP;
        END LOOP;
        EXCEPTION
        WHEN others THEN
        dbms_output.put_line( ''ERROR: Invalid PATH FOR file.''||sqlerrm);
        END;'
        );
        END LOOP;
        END;
        /
    spool off

Answer 2

UTL_FILE writes to the database server. To write to your local machine, you would need to mount your directories on the db server. This is generally a bad idea!

Use spool to write to your machine just do:

spool c:\path\to\your\folder\file.name
select ....