topic Searching a string across all programs in a directory in SAS Programming

Searching a string across all programs in a directory

Leo9 — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:52:50 GMT

Hi All,

I would like to see if there is a way to search for string across all programs in a directory. For example let say there is a directory XYZ which stores all the SAS programs and I want to search weather string 'ABC' is present in any of the of SAS programs in this directory. Is there a way to do it ? Any help is appreciated.

Re: Searching a string across all programs in a directory

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:00:16 GMT

If your SAS server runs on UNIX, log on to it with ssh, navigate to the directory, and run

grep -i abc *.sas

Re: Searching a string across all programs in a directory

Reeza — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:31:28 GMT

See this post.
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Searching-SAS-code-for-keywords/m-p/390472#M93671

Re: Searching a string across all programs in a directory

Leo9 — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:38:59 GMT

Thank you. I should have mentioned this is on Windows.