topic Copying and Saving Current Program in SAS Programming

Copying and Saving Current Program

Chiefsfan4ever — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:50:51 GMT

Is there a way to copy and save the a program that you have open into another directory automatically? For instance, I have a production version of SAS open and I run it. I would like the SAS program to automatically save and place a copy of itself in another location.

i.e.

Production SAS program located C:\

When it's running it's exporting data to A:\

I want to save and copy the program from C:\ to A:\ automatically.

Thanks!

Re: Copying and Saving Current Program

Doc_Duke — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:00:50 GMT

The simplest way might be to write a batch file to do it. It really depends on the tools you have available.

Re: Copying and Saving Current Program

RW9 — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:25:07 GMT

It depends on what you want to achieve. What value is there in copying a program over once its run, why not save the log there, that would show you what has been run (in full with options turned on).

There are a few ways, the simplest would be to have a main program which copy's this over using system commands - x 'copy "..." "..."';

You could also read the text file in and print it out to another file.

You could also re-direct the log.