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ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20

Are you really trying to delete data -or even kill sessions- of users that have an *active* EG session? 

Why on earth would you do this?

NiyiAwe1
Fluorite | Level 6

Try this:

/*MACRO TO GET ALL FILE NAMES AND DETAILS WITHIN A DIRECTORY*/
	%MACRO GET_FILE_NAMES(FILE_DIR	,COMMON_FILE_NAME ,FILE_FORMAT	,DATA_OUT);

		FILENAME LS PIPE "dir &FILE_DIR.&COMMON_FILE_NAME.*.&FILE_FORMAT.";
		DATA FILE_NAMES (KEEP=LIST_FILE); 
			INFILE LS PAD TRUNCOVER EXPANDTABS ; 
			INPUT FILE_NAMES $10000.;
			LIST_FILE = COMPRESS('"'||FILE_NAMES||'"');
		RUN;
		PROC SQL;	SELECT LIST_FILE 	AS LIST_FILE		INTO:	LIST_FILE_1 - 		FROM FILE_NAMES; QUIT;
		PROC SQL; 	SELECT COUNT(*) 	AS NUM_OF_SEARCHES	INTO: 	NUM_OF_SEARCHES		FROM FILE_NAMES;	QUIT;

		%DO Z = 1 %TO &NUM_OF_SEARCHES.;
			DATA RAW_WANT;			
				FILENAME LISA &&LIST_FILE_&Z..; 
				INFILE LISA TRUNCOVER ;
				FORMAT FILE_NAME $20000.;
				FILE_NAME 	= 	&&LIST_FILE_&Z..;
				FLIE_SIZE	=	FINFO(FOPEN('LISA') 		,'FILE SIZE (BYTES)');
				FORMAT MOD_DATE DATETIME.;
   				MOD_DATE	=	INPUT(FINFO(FOPEN('LISA')	,'LAST MODIFIED'), DATETIME.);     
   			    RIGHTS		=	FINFO(FOPEN('LISA')			,'ACCESS PERMISSION');      
		 		OWNER		=	FINFO(FOPEN('LISA')			,'OWNER NAME');      
			RUN;

			PROC APPEND DATA = RAW_WANT BASE = WANT_1 FORCE; RUN;
		%END;
		DATA &DATA_OUT.; 	SET WANT_1; 		RUN;
		PROC DATASETS;		DELETE WANT_1 RAW_WANT FILE_NAMES;	RUN;
	%MEND GET_FILE_NAMES;

/*INPUT PARAMETERS HERE*/
	%GET_FILE_NAMES (FILE_DIR  			= \Users\abc\Desktop\ 		/* SPECIFY THE DIRECTORY LOCATION HERE*/
				   , COMMON_FILE_NAME 	= HAVE_NAME     			/* FILE COMMON NAME, YOU CAN PUT "*" HERE TO SELECT ALL FILE NAMES*/
				   , FILE_FORMAT 		= txt 						/* FILE FORMAT,  YOU CAN PUT "*" HERE TO SELECT ALL FILE FORMATS WITHIN THE DIRECTORY*/
				   , DATA_OUT			= WANT);		   			
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