topic Re: How to move data permanently from one folder to another in SAS Programming

How to move data permanently from one folder to another

Mahesh1 — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:40:45 GMT

Hello,

I have a scenario :

I have main folder like this-

Main folder Name

Inside each main folder I have two sub folders : WAREHOUSE_DATA and AUTO-ARCHIVE.

In the folder WAREHOUSE_DATA I have my sas datasets. I need to take a back up of those data sets. To do that I have to move them into anothe folder AUTO-ARCHIVE. After moving datasets to AUTO-ARCHIVE folder there should not be any data sets in the folder WAREHOUSE_DATA. I have to perform this task in all the main folders X1,X2,X3.....X50.

Is there any automated macro code for this.

Re: How to move data permanently from one folder to another

Reeza — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:56:00 GMT

Look into PROC DATASETS.

Re: How to move data permanently from one folder to another

ballardw — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:26:29 GMT

Note that you can assign a library to multiple folders (your source folders).

A question arises though to clarify are any of the files you are talking about moving are other than SAS datasets or catalogs?

Re: How to move data permanently from one folder to another

error_prone — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:35:56 GMT

Why do you want to solve this task with SAS? Using os-commands seems to be easier in this case.