SAS UNZIP command

[woo]

I also tried running both code after putting brand new zipped file (unprocessed before),

x 'unzip d:\test\*.zip';

run fine and did nothing 

%sysexec unzip d:\test\*.zip;

prompting same two windows as i mentioned above 

[Patrick]

You need to set option "options noxwait;" as else your SAS session waits for the Dos shell to exit - which never happens. 

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostwin/67962/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0xwt90ik8vxdrn137...

[Astounding · Accepted solution]

I agree with Patrick ... NOXWAIT is required, and may be all that is missing at this point.  If the results are still not successful, I would try breaking the steps into pieces as follows:

options noxwait;

x 'cd d:\test';

x 'dir';

x 'unzip *.zip';

The DIR command isn't really necessary once things are working properly, but it may help diagnose what is happening.  I'm hoping this works, because after this I'm out of ideas.

[woo]

infect i was using options noxwait, and i was prompting that message...don't know why..but appreciate your efforts and time...Thank you so much...