Hi There,
I have a SAS program that is generating a csv report file and writing it to one of the work directory on server. I want the created file to be copied or moved over to another directory on server. For this I added following lines of code to my existing code but it errors out with error message saying "Shell escape is not valid in this SAS session".
%let dir1="%sysfunc(pathname(work))/FileName..csv";
%let dir2="//FileServerName/Dir1/XYZ/Reports/";
%sysexec move "&dir1" "&dir2";
Any other work around/ suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks in advance.
FCOPY and/or PROC DOWNLOAD.
Yes, it's common for server side installations to restrict access to the OS, and using OS commands, which is your current approach.
FCOPY uses SAS built in tools.
But if your SAS has access to the directory, you should be able to export directly to there in the first place?
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