topic List out all files in all sub directories in SAS Programming

List out all files in all sub directories

forumsguy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:30:22 GMT

Hi there,

My task is to list out all files in my current directory which has about 3 sub directories . As we have EG , all pipe commands are disabled but I am able to list out all file names in a dataset by using following code but however I am unable to tweak it for all sub folders as these 3 subdirectories also have 4 folders each. Basically its Q1, Q2 and Q3 and then Q1 consists of folders of January, February and so on .... Need help in modifying this code to take care of all folders....or else if any alternative is there without pipes..plz let me know

filename _folder_ "%bquote(\\jafiles01\SAS Folder\)"; data filenames(keep=memname); handle=dopen( '_folder_' );

if handle > 0 then do; count=dnum(handle); do i=1 to count; memname=dread(handle,i); output filenames; end; end; rc=dclose(handle); run; filename _folder_ clear;

List out all files in all sub directories

SASKiwi — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:21:10 GMT

You might want to check this out as well:

http://support.sas.com/kb/25/074.html

List out all files in all sub directories

forumsguy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:13:07 GMT

Thanks SASKiwi for the link but it still does the same thing. It reads out files from same folder and not the subfolders....

List out all files in all sub directories

FriedEgg — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:09:45 GMT

What OS are you using?

Re: List out all files in all sub directories

polingjw — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:05:13 GMT

Take a look at Jason Secosky's excellent paper "User-Written DATA Step Functions." Specifically, look at the "directory traversal example." I would include a link but copy/paste doesn't work for me in this forum.

List out all files in all sub directories

Haikuo_old — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:29:16 GMT

Here you go: http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/008-2007.pdf

List out all files in all sub directories

forumsguy — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:08:07 GMT

I am using Windows with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

List out all files in all sub directories

FriedEgg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:09:39 GMT

Is the server you are connecting to through EG also Windows?