topic Re: Shell exit is invalid in this SAS session.Run a sas code x "chmod ...."; in Developers

Shell exit is invalid in this SAS session.Run a sas code x "chmod ....";

GritZhou — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 03:22:11 GMT

Shell exit is invalid in this SAS session.Run a sas code x "chmod ....";

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 05:41:03 GMT

There is no SAS-internal tool for setting file permissions, so you must have XCMD enabled to do it from a SAS program.

alancox — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 07:23:17 GMT

Depending on the full context of your code & if you're on a unix based system, you could use the 'permission' option within the filename statement

Alan

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:45:12 GMT

Can this be used on an existing file without making any other modifications?

Will the permissions be changed if this is submitted:

filename xxx '/path/file' permission=".....";
filename xxx clear;

alancox — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:04:49 GMT

There is an option to do this too using this CAS action if you're a Viya user.

Always worth a try to see how it functions as you suggest Kurt

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:27:14 GMT

I tried it; you cannot change just the permission of an existing file, you must write to it.