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Can we run SAS program in Linux creating a shell script.

radha009 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 12:54:35 GMT

To secure the code. Instead using SAS tool to execute the program.Can you please help if we can write a shell script and execute the program. I created a program as below shell script and run in LINUX but it is not working.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/sh
dtstamp =$(date +%Y.%m.%d_%H.%M.%S)
pgmname ="/SAS/Code/Infra/Application_Validation.sas"
logname = "/SAS/Code/Infra/Application_Val_$dtstamp.log"
/sas/SASHome2/x86/SASFoundation/9.4/sas $pgmname -log $logname

Errors:

user/SAS/Code/infra>sh program.sh
program.sh: line 2: dtstamp: command not found
program.sh: line 3: pgmname: command not found
logname: extra operand `='
Try `logname --help' for more information.
program.sh: line 5: /sas/SASHome2/x86/SASFoundation/9.4/sas: No such file or directory

Re: Can we run SAS program in Linux creating a shell script.

Ksharp — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:35:25 GMT

/*** must have only one line **/

/sas/SASFoundation/9.4/sas
-sysin /home/sas/xxxx.sas
-config /location/sas/sasv9.cfg
-noterminal
-unbuflog
-log "/location/sas/log/xxxx_%Y%m%d.log"
-logparm "rollover=auto open=append write=immediate"
-memsize 0
-sortsize 1G

Re: Can we run SAS program in Linux creating a shell script.

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:36:19 GMT

Blanks are the natural separators in any shell scripting language, so you must be careful in their use.

When setting an environment variable, the equal sign has to immediately follow the variable name.

This will fail:

$ dtstamp =$(date +%Y.%m.%d_%H.%M.%S)

while this will work:

$ dtstamp=$(date +%Y.%m.%d_%H.%M.%S) 
$ echo $dtstamp
2018.11.30_14.35.08

Re: Can we run SAS program in Linux creating a shell script.

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:38:46 GMT

Oh yeah, and

program.sh: line 5: /sas/SASHome2/x86/SASFoundation/9.4/sas: No such file or directory

simply means you entered an incorrect path name to your SAS executable. Browse your file system for the correct location.

Re: Can we run SAS program in Linux creating a shell script.

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:41:02 GMT

And it's best to use a shell script that SAS has prepared for running batch programs. It's called sasbatch.sh and located in /sasconf/Lev1/SASApp/Batchserver. It will use the same configuration you find in your SASApp server in SAS Studio or EG.

Re: Can we run SAS program in Linux creating a shell script.

radha009 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:02:03 GMT

I am using windows SAS for creating programs. Can i copy the scripts to unix server and execute the program as the above script.

in SAS properties i have the same patch.

Re: Can we run SAS program in Linux creating a shell script.

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:08:31 GMT

Very naturally, you cannot use Windows batch files as shell scripts on UNIX systems. That's why I suggest to use the sasbatch.sh provided by SAS in the BI Server environment.

And I don't understand what you mean by

"in SAS properties i have the same patch."