Fair enough... the company I work for uses a Windows based server and allows things like this so this was the solution that I used. Thanks for the reply and the info. Rob
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Here is another solution that calls cmd through SAS using the x command (file path needs to be quoted). %macro delete_bak(xlsx_path); option noxwait; x del /f &xlsx_path..bak; %mend; Hope this helps! Rob
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