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Running SAS from command line

Running SAS from command line

Running SAS from command line

(OP)
Hi,
We are running a server copy of SAS (UNIX) and there are a couple programs that we run on a fairly regular basis. We were wondering if there was a way to run SAS programs from the command line, without even having to go in to SAS.

Any help or nudge in the direction would be appreciated!
fyr

RE: Running SAS from command line

Not so sure what you mean "command line".

You can submit a sas job as a foregroud job:
   sas YourJobName.
But this will hold up you unix session.
You can also submit a sas job as a backgroud job:
   nohup sas YourJobName &.
This will not hold up you session and when you log out, you job continue to run.

RE: Running SAS from command line

I do this all the time in Windows... and has been a LONG time for me since programming UNIX at AT&T... but it should be similar

I have batch files set up to run on a scheduled basis on a 'dog' machine on the network.  The one drawback is that SAS & the scheduled tasks do not run as a service, so the machine needs to be logged in ALL of the time.

In your batch file put
"C:\Program Files\SAS Institute\SAS\V8\sas.exe" -sysin "path and full program name.sas"

SAS's site has a nice blurb on doing it too
ftp://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts648/ts648.html


RE: Running SAS from command line

(OP)
This is great. We use autosys in UNIX and we wanted a way to call the specific programs from autosys. Thank you so much.

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