topic Re: Hide/suppress CMD.exe prompts? in SAS Programming

Hide/suppress CMD.exe prompts?

Krueger — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:31:00 GMT

Hello all I'm running the following code:

%sysexec( copy "\\uncpath\file.xlsm"
               "\\uncpath\file.xlsx" ) ;

Proc export data = want
	outfile = "\\uncpath\file.xlsx";
	Dbms = Xlsx replace ; 
	sheet='sheet 1';
run ; 
%sysexec( copy "\\uncpath\file.xlsm"
               "\\uncpath\file.xlsx" ) ;

The above works fine, but I do get a prompt for each %sysexec() command I run.

Is there a way to hide this cmd.exe window? It copies my .xlsx sheet to my .xlsm sheet just fine but I'm trying to automate this to run on it's own and currently I have to close out of this window each time. I haven't been very successful in finding a way to prevent this thus far. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Hide/suppress CMD.exe prompts?

Reeza — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:43:17 GMT

options noxwait noxsync;

It's one of those, can't remember which does what though.

Re: Hide/suppress CMD.exe prompts?

Reeza — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:43:38 GMT

You could also use FCOPY to avoid the issue and have the code be system agnostic.

Re: Hide/suppress CMD.exe prompts?

Krueger — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 19:00:14 GMT

Noxsync took care of the cmd.exe prompt and the windows prompt that shows up. FCOPY for some reason corrupted both of my files. Maybe there was something else to it though?

Thanks

Re: Hide/suppress CMD.exe prompts?

Reeza — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 19:12:12 GMT

Try as binary?
https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lefunctionsref&docsetTarget=n10dz22b5ixohin1vwzilweetek0.htm&docsetVersion=3.1&locale=en#n1srxqduw2jfagn1fbfcc5d5d249