Date:         Mon, 5 Sep 2005 15:53:43 -0600
Reply-To:     Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
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From:         Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
Subject:      Re: File size on Windows.
Comments: To: "Patnaik, Tirthankar" <tirthankar.patnaik@CITIGROUP.COM>
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Tir,

Awhile back, I wrote a command-line utility to provide better directory
information. You can get it for free at:

http://www.savian.net/Utilities.aspx

It is called GetFileInfo. Use a /? On the command-line to see args but it
operates like:

GetFileInfo "c:\temp" "*.sas" "c:\temp\outinfo.txt"

Output is a tab-delimited file with headers.

Alan Churchill
Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies"
www.savian.net

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Patnaik, Tirthankar
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 11:19 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: File size on Windows.

Art,
        Thanks very much for this, I'd tried this method before, but there
are too many inconsistencies--dir names, dir summaries, and what have you.
Found that /q was the only flag that gave some clean output, but no size!
Then I wondered if there was a better way...:)

best,
-Tir

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Arthur Tabachneck
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:57 PM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: File size on Windows.
>
>
> Tir,
>
> The following doesn't even compare with Richard's link but,
> in the event
> that you can live with the information output by the MS dir
> command, then
> you could just change your /b to /q.
>
> For example, something like:
>
> filename fh pipe 'dir /q /s c:\tir\ddir';
> data fdir (drop=dir);
>   infile fh lrecl=300 truncover firstobs=6;
>   input date mmddyy8. @11 time $10. @23 dir $5. @28 size $10.
>         @38 owner $22. @61 name $40.;
>   if trim(upcase(dir)) ne '<DIR>' and date ne .;
> run;
>
> Art
> ----------
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:12:35 +0530, Patnaik, Tirthankar
> <tirthankar.patnaik@CITIGROUP.COM> wrote:
>
> >Folks,
> >    Is there any way one can find the size of a file, and other
> attributes on Windows? I use an anonymous pipe to take in the list of
> files in a dir, and all it's subdirectories. I also have code
> to find out
> some properties of a file. I'd like to get the size, owner, and other
> attributes of each file in my dir. Any ideas how?
>