Originally posted by OracleDoc
You know, after I get slammed by my fellow DBA's for joking about something and I see questions like this put up makes me go hmmmm.

So I'll play nice this time even though it pains me greatly.

Your ORACLE_HOME/bin directory is where the Oracle executables are stored. For an example.. things like your listener executable. You don't want to play with them.
I hate people like this.. they are not trying to answer the question but to critic. Well in unix... normally $ORACLE_HOME/bin is part of $PATH.. therefore not need to play in $ORACLE_HOME/bin.. just type "oracle" it will refer to $ORACLE_HOME/bin to execute this command.... that's why i'm accidentially ran this command juest because my unix id is "oracle"... hope you really understand the situation and please answer the question if you know...
Anybody pls help?