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Export SAS log to external files without vbs

Bellefeuille — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:36:35 GMT

Hello,

Im trying to find a way to export the log everytime i run a program in EG, or Sas 9.3 Is there an easy way of doing this with a timestamp?

Re: Export SAS log to external files without vbs

RW9 — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:45:57 GMT

In your code, before you run anything, you can put:

proc printto log="<path to log>\<name of log>_%sysfunc(date(),date9.)_%sysfunc(time(),tod5).txt";

run;

This will redirect the log output to the given file, and the %sysfunc's will give a date and time in the filename.

Re: Export SAS log to external files without vbs

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:01:14 GMT

By personal preference, I would use yymmddd10. or yymmddn8. as the format for the date value. This automatically sorts the logs in their chronological order.