topic Running a bat file from SAS EG in SAS Enterprise Guide

Running a bat file from SAS EG

KBACHU — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:43:59 GMT

I am trying to run a bat file from SAS EG and bat file has a list of SAS programs. The bat file/SAS program seems to be executing but the SAS program doesnt create a log file. Is there any way a log file can be created?

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call system("T:\Test_Bat.bat");

x "T:\Test_Bat.bat";

run;

%sysexec("T:\Test_Bat.bat");

run;

Re: Running a bat file from SAS EG

TomKari — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 19:05:20 GMT

You'd need to open up the bat file, and add a log destination to the line that invokes SAS. I think the syntax is

-log "C:\whatever\mylog.log"

Tom

Re: Running a bat file from SAS EG

LinusH — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 20:24:45 GMT

A log is created by default, you might need to investigate where. You are talking about the individual SAS programs in the bat script, right?

It sounds like an awkward way of doing things. I can there's a need for scheduling purposes to create a bat file, but why do you need to execute it from EG?

Re: Running a bat file from SAS EG

Ksharp — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 06:43:17 GMT

Try this one . after executing , open log.txt

x "T:\Test_Bat.bat > c:\temp\log.txt ";