topic Re: Easier way to navigate SAS EG server files in SAS Enterprise Guide

Easier way to navigate SAS EG server files

csn — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:05:15 GMT

I am required to save all of my programs and projects on the SAS EG (v6.1) Unix server. The path varies somewhat, but for virtually every task I have to navigate through numerous layers of folder to get to my project files. Has anyone found a shortcut to this? The SAS administrator cannot change the configuration because other departments using the server would not navigate to the same file structure as myself. Any ideas / macros, etc, that would save the tedious navigation in the Server List window? example: files/division/dept/unit/product/project/programs/ ...

--Carolyn Norman

Re: Easier way to navigate SAS EG server files

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:03:44 GMT

You could create a link to the desired location in your home directory:

ln /home/username/division/dept/unit/product/project/programs/ /home/username/programs

from the UNIX commandline. If the directories span different filesystems, create a symbolic link by using ln -s

Re: Easier way to navigate SAS EG server files

JuanS_OCS — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:04:15 GMT

Hello @csn, Carolyn,

there is! And it is not SAS related. Good that you are working with a Unix server. Google is full of examples:

https://www.google.nl/search?q=Linux+copy+files+with+extention&oq=Linux+copy+files+with+extention&aqs=chrome..69i57.14591j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

An example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15617016/cp-copy-all-files-with-a-certain-extension-from-all-subdirectories

find dir_name '*.egp' -exec cp -vuni '{}' "../dest_dir" ";"

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/157286/copying-files-with-multiple-extensions

Re: Easier way to navigate SAS EG server files

SASKiwi — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 07:07:36 GMT

In the longer term if you not only want to provide easier navigation but also provide better management of your SAS programs and projects then I recommend the use of software change management tools. EG already integrates with GIT, and from personal experience I've found other tools that work equally as well.