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Zipping a folder in SAS.

GokulShivananda — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:27:14 GMT

Hello,

I have a Main folder which contain lot of files and folder . I am using SAS 9.3 How can i Zip the Main folder . ? Please let me know any inputs.

Regards,

Gokul Shivananda

Haikuo — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:14:38 GMT

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 08:06:33 GMT

If your SAS runs on UNIX, this may do the trick:

X "cd /path/main;zip -R main '*'";

Which will give you a file main.zip in your "main" folder that contains everything in all subfolders.

GokulShivananda — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:41:02 GMT

Yes Sas runs on unix.
Thanks a lot.

GokulShivananda — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:47:25 GMT

Thank you.