topic Re: how to get the list of file names with formats (.PDF or .DOC or .MSG) from a shared drive in SAS Programming

how to get the list of file names with formats (.PDF or .DOC or .MSG) from a shared drive

don21 — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:37:26 GMT

Dear team,

I have a shared drive mapped in my networks. I am trying to get the list of file in various folders along with their formatslike whether the file is Pdf or doc or excel or an email message.

Request you to kinldy let me know if it is possible. IF yes, please advise how.

Thank you!

Re: how to get the list of file names with formats (.PDF or .DOC or .MSG) from a shared drive

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:58:25 GMT

Use the dopen() and dread() functions to access directories.

Re: how to get the list of file names with formats (.PDF or .DOC or .MSG) from a shared drive

RW9 — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:03:47 GMT

If you have command line access, then you can simply:

filename tmp pipe 'dir "..." /b';

data want;
  length name $200;
  infile tmp;
  input;
  name=_input_;
run;

That is windows, you can do the same on other OS.

I would question why you need this though? File operations are much better done with specific tools for the task. A simple batch file with:

dir/b > files.txt

Or more complicated VB script to loop etc. merged in with what ever your process is, I expect it involves copy/pasting or archiving or something like that. SAS really isn't an OS level tool.