Running Shell Scripts from within SAS

[LuckySkunk]

Hi

I'm new. Is it possible to run a shell script from within the SAS program? Thanks in advance.

Regards.

 

[dblan]

I've had situations where I've had to execute a vb script from SAS. However for that, the vb script was a seperate file and I used the "x" function in SAS to run it.

  [COLOR=blue]x[/color] [COLOR=purple]'"c:\temp\my_vbs_file.vbs"'[/color];

 

[ChrisW75]

As dblan says, it is possible to submit external OS commands from SAS (including getting scripts to run). However this cannot be done if you are working through Enterprise Guide.
You can also use SYSTASK to do that same thing as X...
I used this to create a list of the files in a directory which I could then read in and use to build dynamic code to read in all the files.

/* Create list of files to be read in */
systask command "DIR /B ""&RAWPATH.\*.csv"" >Filelist.txt" WAIT;

The WAIT option tells SAS to not proceed until the task has completed.

Chris
Business Analyst, Code Monkey, Data Wrangler.
SAS Guru.

 

[LuckySkunk]

Thanks loads guys. Will give it a go.