Under UNIX, you can use the FILENAME statement to assign filerefs not only to external files and I/O devices, but also to a pipe. Pipes enable your SAS application to receive input from any UNIX ...

Shell basics The Unix command line shell is roughly equivalent to the command window in Microsoft Windows (cmd or PowerShell). The commands we walk through below will work on any Unix-like system ...

That should, in theory, put the output of the command on the clipboard. But in this case, it wasn’t working. After much investigation, what I learned is that some Unix commands, httpd -t ...

To get started as a Linux (or Unix) user, you need to have a good perspective on how Linux works and a handle on some of the most basic commands. This first post in a “getting started” series ...

You can execute UNIX commands from your SAS session either asynchronously or synchronously. When you run a command as an asynchronous task, the command executes independently of all other tasks that ...

While this can be true – some Unix commands are like a foreign language – the command line can also be simple, useful, and powerful. The goal of this article (the first in an occasional series to be ...

On the other hand, it shouldn’t take much time at all to search the PATH on Ubuntu or SUSE. The real benefit to the use of ./ to run scripts in Linux is that it avoids naming conflicts amongst ...

If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an easy hack to embed Cygwin's commands into your standard Windows comand prompt; if not, it might be worth checking out the free download.

The fuser command is code (yes, we duplicating effort here) would store the letter codes associated with fuser output in a temporary file which could later be displayed and then removed like this: ...