How to create folder at UNIX in SAS program?

[GeorgeSAS]

Hello All,

After I run a SAS program in UNIX the program can create a folder " /home/A123456ABC/XYZ/ABC"  for me. how to write the SAS code?

Thanks!

x123456789-aaa-15$ pwd
/home/A123456ABC/My_report
x123456789-aaa-16$  sas the_code_needed.sas

[Astounding · Accepted solution]

SAS doesn't have any special code to create a directory.  Instead, it lets you issue a Unix command.  For example, within a SAS program you could code:

%sysexec cd /home/A123456ABC;

%sysexec mkdir My_Reports_test1;

I can't test it right now, but you should test it when the program you submit is in your home folder, as well as when the program is in some other folder.

[GeorgeSAS]

How to embed the unix command into SAS code? I want the SAS code be executed automation include creating new folder step.

[Astounding]

%sysexec is the SAS code.  It doesn't need to be embedded.  Just save it as a .sas file and run it.

[boemskats]

Not strictly true. This can also be useful if you don't have xcmd permissions:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a002986745.htm

[Ksharp]

Check function  DCREATE() .