topic How to redirect put statements to the result instead of the log? in SAS Programming

How to redirect put statements to the result instead of the log?

tomcmacdonald — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:09:46 GMT

Is there a way to redirect put statements within the data step to the result rather than the log?

Re: How to redirect put statements to the result instead of the log?

SuryaKiran — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:14:03 GMT

Show us what your trying to do. What are your writing to log matters.

Re: How to redirect put statements to the result instead of the log?

Shmuel — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:17:04 GMT

Using PUT statement uses as default the FILE LOG output;

You can define any other output including FILE PRINT to have the output on result window.

data _null_;

   file print; put 'Output to result window';

   file log;   put 'Return to default';

run;

Re: How to redirect put statements to the result instead of the log?

tomcmacdonald — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:19:13 GMT

I'm using SAS 9.4 under AIX 7 with bash. I'm trying to redirect the output from put statements into a file. I want the following command to output "hello, foobar" to stdout.

sas -stdio <(echo 'data _null_; put "hello, foobar"; run;') 2>/dev/null

It seems the only way to accomplish this is to explicitly use the file statement like this:

sas -stdio <(echo 'data _null_; file stdout; put "hello, foobar"; run;') 2>/dev/null

Re: How to redirect put statements to the result instead of the log?

mounikaupshot — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:05:30 GMT

Inside your script file, put all of the commands within parentheses, like this:

(echo start
ls -l
echo end) | tee foo.log