I tried this program to zip all xls files in a /home/ directroy to create a report.zip, but it did not recognize the wildcard. What is a good way to do this?
ods package(ProdOutput) open nopf;
ods package(ProdOutput)
add file="/home/*.xls";
ods package(ProdOutput)
publish archive
properties
(archive_name=
'report.zip'
archive_path="/home/report/");
ods package(ProdOutput) close;
hi,
Do some sort of directory listing:
filename dirlist pipe "dir 'somewhere' /b";
data dirlist;
length buffer $2000;
infile dirlist;
input buffer $;
run;
Next use that dataset to generate your code:
/* open package here */
data _null_;
set dirlist;
call execute('ods package(ProdOutput) add file="'||strip(buffer)||'";');
run;
/* close package here */
Note I am assuming of course that all files in the specified directory are to be included.
You should be able to modify the sample below to look for the extension .XLS rather than the SAS data set.
http://support.sas.com/kb/45256
%if &ext=XLS %then %do;
%let cnt=%eval(&cnt+1);
%let name&cnt=&fname..&ext;
%end;
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