Oracle? Database Utilities -> 14 The ORACLE_LOADER Access Driver
If the file you want to load contains data records that are not in a format supported by the ORACLE_LOADER access driver, then use the PREPROCESSOR clause to specify a user-supplied preprocessor program that will execute for every data file. Note that the program specification must be enclosed in a shell script. if it uses arguments (see the description of "file_spec").
The preprocessor program converts the data to a record format supported by the access driver and then writes the converted record data to standard output (stdout), which the access driver reads as input. The syntax of the PREPROCESSOR clause is as follows: