How to read date value from Unix and use into sas

[SRINIVAS_N]

I want to read date value from Unix and the value I want to use in SAS programming.

[AMSAS]

Hi Srinivas_N

To fully answer this you need to supply more information:

Where is your data stored, what is the format of that data, etc.

For example if you were reading a text file "\some\file.txt" 

data mySASDS ;  /* This creates a SAS dataset in the WORK library */

  infile "\some\file.txt"  ; /* This defines your source file */

  input num_var str_var $ date_var ddmmyy. ; /* This tells SAS how to read the data in the source file */

run ;

There's more to it than that, but that's the basics. I suggest you go loop up those statements in the documentation and look at the examples

[Reeza]

What is the current reason you cannot do this?

What is the source data?

What have you tried that doesn't work?

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@SRINIVAS_N wrote:
I want to read date value from Unix and the value I want to use in SAS programming.

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[SRINIVAS_N]

Today() returns today's date
I want to pass a date value to control m scheduler ,so I want to get date
value from Unix to SAS

[AMSAS]

Hi, 
Really need more details of what you are attempting to do, as it is still unclear.
From this post it looks like you might be attempting to pass a parameter/argument from Unix into a SAS program

You can do this by using the SYSPARM invocation option, which the SAS program can then read via the SYSPARM macro variable, further details can be found here

[Kurt_Bremser]

If you want to import a typical UNIX timestamp into SAS, you need to do the following:

• read into a numeric variable
• add '01jan1970:00:00:00'dt to it
• format as a datetime value or
• use the datepart() function to extract the date, and use a date format

UNIX timestamps are counts of seconds like they are in SAS, but the zero point is different.