How to zip a complete folder from SAS with 7Zip

[Billybob73]

Hi

7Zip is installed on my SAS BI server, which is great because we have to zip with encryption.

I've read somewhere on this platform how to zip a single file and this works :

data _null_;
zipexe='"<path to 7zip executable>\7z.exe" a -tzip -pPASSWORD';
zipfile="<zip target path>\<zipfile>.zip";
file="<zip source path>\<file to be zipped>.<extension>";
cmd = zipexe ||' "'|| zipfile ||'" "'|| file ||'"' ;
call system(cmd);
run;

I've been trying to zip a whole folder by googling for command lines for 7zip but was not successful.

Anybody knows how to do this ?

Thanks!

RGDS

B

[Kurt_Bremser]

First of all, test your commandline from a cmd window outside of SAS.

Then, run it from SAS with a FILENAME PIPE:

filename oscmd pipe "your complete command 2>&1";

data _null_;
infile oscmd;
input;
put _infile_;
run;

then look at your log, you will find all responses from the system.