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KJ_SAS
Calcite | Level 5

I have a file called outer.cmd. That file calls inner.cmd. I use the %sysexec command to call outer.cmd. However I recieve the error "inner.cmd is not recognized as an internal or external command" when SAS 9.3 runs the outer program. Is there a way around this?   

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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20
Does it work if call outer outside SAS (from the same directory/user/etc)?
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KJ_SAS
Calcite | Level 5

The outer.cmd file calls and runs the inner.cmd file correctly if I run it outside SAS.

KJ_SAS
Calcite | Level 5

Thank you. This suggestion fixed my issue. Even though both files are in the same folder calling the inner file like " call inner.cmd" didn't work. Instead I needed to call it like so " call "C:\Users\user\Documents\inner.cmd"  ". 

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

You probably used a fully qualified path name for outer.cmd. But that does not imply a change directory to its location. UNIX shell scripts do often extract the path from the called commandline and change to it for that reason.

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