Date:         Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:08:41 -0500
Reply-To:     Kevin Brunson <kbrunson@ND.EDU>
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From:         Kevin Brunson <kbrunson@ND.EDU>
Organization: College of Business, Notre Dame
Subject:      Re: conditional execution of unix job stream
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For now I'm going with a simple solution suggested by Karsten Self which is to
use the UNIX && command so that a subsequent command executes if and only if
the previous command had no warnings or errors.  I'm giving the method to a
Finance prof and he'll have to let me know if the error/warning free condition
is too severe.  Other suggestions involve SAS macros which may be overkill in
this case--it's not a production process.  I merely used && with the x command
in a SAS program because the prof will have an easy time editing as the
members of the stream change:

        x 'sas adata &&
           f77 -o bdata bdata.f &&
           bdata &&
           sas cdata &&
           sas dmerge &&
           make -f Makefile &&
           edata &&
           sas fdata
           ';

        run;


Kevin Brunson wrote:
>
> Before I spend too much time traveling down the wrong road I hope someone will
> point me in the correct direction or confirm I'm in the right direction.
>
> The environment is SAS 6.12 on Solaris.  A user has a series of 6 programs,
> some SAS and some Fortran; the last 5 have to be executed conditional upon the
> completion of a prior one.  The programs in order are
>
>         adata.sas
>         bdata.f
>         cdata.sas
>         dmerge.sas
>         edata.for
>         fdata.sas
>

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