topic Re: Default group of files created through EG in SAS Enterprise Guide

Default group of files created through EG

Go — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:39:25 GMT

Hi All,

When I create (touch) files in UNIX terminal, the default group is xxx and to change it yyy, i can use newgrp command and I will be fine,

But When I create files(for example a test data set) through Enterprise Guide, the default group goes to xxx and I want it to be yyy, how can i achive this ? thanks

Re: Default group of files created through EG

jklaverstijn — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:57:17 GMT

Hi Go,

You can force the group of a file by setting the set-group-ID bit of the containing directory. If a directory’s set-group-ID bit is set, newly created subfiles inherit the same group as the directory. So in addition you should also set the group of that directory to the desired group as a one-time command.

You can set the set-group-ID bit and change its group as follows:

# chmod g+s mydir

# chgrp yyy mydir

Existing files in the directory will not be affected.

Hope this helps,

Regards Jan.

Re: Default group of files created through EG

jimbarbour — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:57:43 GMT

Jan's suggestion, above is a good one, and probably the best if you don't mind changing the default group for the entire directory.

If however you only want to change the default group for some files but not for all files, you can issue UNIX commands from your SAS program using %sysexec

For example, here I'm issuing a df -k command which will put a listing of the space allocations on my UNIX server into a text file called df_-k.txt

/** Create a listing of the space allocations on UNIX server. **/
%sysexec %str(df -k > /home/barbourj/df_-k.txt);

Using %sysexec, you could just as easily issue chmod commands.

Hope that helps,

Jim