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fgasdg
Calcite | Level 5

I'm looking to  get the output of unix command

 

       %let myfile =  x 'ls -tr /sas/data/mydata | tail -1';

 

to be added into the sas program as a variable  &myfile to use in the program and I can get awa from hardcoded filenames.

Any ideas?

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s_lassen
Meteorite | Level 14

You probably want to use a PIPE device, e.g.:

 

filename ls pipe 'ls -tr /sas/data/mydata | tail -1';
data want;
  infile ls;
  input <whatever you want from the input>;
call symputx('myfile',<the variable you read>); run;

 

 

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Reeza
Super User

This macro, not mine, will generate the directory listing of a folder into a data set and can recursively search the subfolders. Set the depth to control it not searching. 

 

https://github.com/sasutils/macros/blob/master/dirtree.sas

 

 

s_lassen
Meteorite | Level 14

You probably want to use a PIPE device, e.g.:

 

filename ls pipe 'ls -tr /sas/data/mydata | tail -1';
data want;
  infile ls;
  input <whatever you want from the input>;
call symputx('myfile',<the variable you read>); run;

 

 

fgasdg
Calcite | Level 5

Exactly what I needed. Works perfectly! thanks!

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