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R_Chung
Quartz | Level 8

I found out that when I finish running or cancel the running job, there are some information stored in some working folders(stored in saswork - UNIX). Sometimes it will be automatically deleted but sometimes it will still stay there. Would there any options for us to do before running a job or telling sas di to delete the corresponding working folders?

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Shmuel
Garnet | Level 18

SASWORK exists as long as the SAS session exists.

The folder is removed by SAS, when SAS session ends normally, but stays on when job is canceled.

 

The only way I know in unix is to cancel the delete it manually, when job ends suddenly.

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

SAS provides a utility (SASFoundation/9.4/utilities/bin/cleanwork) that can (and should) be used regularly (think cron job) to remove leftover WORK directories from SAS sessions that did not terminate gracefully.

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