%sysexec UNC filepath

michelconn — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:44:35 GMT

I am attempting to copy files over to a different folder and am using the sysexec fuction. The issue that I am running into is my file paths is UNC so SAS keeps opening the CMD window and I have to manually exit for each file. Since there are 3500 files to transfer this isn't really a good option. Any suggestions to get SAS to exit for me? I could transfer the files over to my C: drive but I would put that as the last option.

%let source=\\global\kcshares\Projects\110933\Police Reports\All Reports;
%let target=\\global\kcshares\Projects\110933\Police Reports\Curve Reports;

proc sql noprint;
	select report
	into :report separated by ' '
	from crashes;
quit;
%put &report;
%macro report;
%do i=1 %to 5; *%sysfunc(countw(&report," "));
	%let report_no=%scan(&report,&i," ");
		%sysexec copy "&source.\&report_no..pdf" "&target.\&report_no..pdf"; 
%end;
%mend;
%report;

Re: %sysexec UNC filepath

michelconn — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:02:31 GMT

I found the solution I needed to use:

options NOXWAIT;

Re: %sysexec UNC filepath

ballardw — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:36:19 GMT

If you were copying all of the files with common name you can use wildcards such as

copy "&source.\rep*.pdf" would copy all files that start with the letters 'rep'. Or if you needed all of the PDF files then *.pdf

So you may not have needed to copy them one by one.

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