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shankar_kumar
Calcite | Level 5
Hi Everyone

I am working on SAS Enterprise Guide.

As part of an automation work, I need to move some files from one folder to another folder.

SAS step used is:

options noxwait;
x ‘move c:\temp\*.txt c:\newtemp’;

When I run this step, I get following error:
ERROR: Shell escape is not valid in this SAS session.

Since Enterprise Guide I work on provides a client interface to log in to SAS server located remotely, I found from internet that SAS administrator disables windows cmd commands to avoid their misuses.

Please suggest me ways to move files.

Note: while I want to move, I want to make sure the "date modified" values of files do not change.

Appreciate your co-operation.

Thanks
Shankar
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Patrick
Opal | Level 21
Yep. That's the message you get with NOXCMD as I explained in one of your threads.

You have to ask your SAS Admin to change this to XCMD (in SAS Metadata on the logical Server under Advanced Options - I think...).

As long as NOXCMD is set there is no way to issue an OS command (shell escape).
darrylovia
Quartz | Level 8
Hello

I work exclusively in SAS Enterprise Guide and have had the same problem that you have. I solved mine by directly accessing the Windows DLL that contains the copy/move function by using the SASCBTL attribute table with the MODULE family of call routines and functions. Below is a link to a paper that I wrote for SESUG 2010 that describes how to do this.

paper
http://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2010/CC06.Putnam.pdf

SAS DOC
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostwin/63285/HTML/default/viewer.htm#accdll.htm

Enjoy
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