Hi,
I'm trying to run this windows cmd instruction from SAS (when executed from cmd, it works perfectly fine) :
for /f "usebackq tokens=2*" %i in (`svn st ^| findstr /R "^!"`) do svn del "%i"
Now, tried everything: x, system from scl, quotations... nothing works - the issue seems to be the variables, which get interpreted as macro definitions, but there seems to be no way around that... Can anybody help me with that?
Hi Nieumysl
Have you tried this approach:
filename cmd pipe "<your cmmand>" lrecl=2048;
data _null_;
infile cmd;
input;
put _infile_;
run;
The benefit here is that you can see the command-prompt messages in the sas-log.
Another approach that might be helpful is to write the command to a .bat or .cmd file.
and call the the bat/cmd from SAS in whatever way.
Br, Jakob Hommelhoff
Thanks Jakob! 🙂 It works swimmingly :smileygrin:
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