Date:         Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:11:11 -0800
Reply-To:     Ali G <Alistair.Gordon@NEWTYNE.COM>
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From:         Ali G <Alistair.Gordon@NEWTYNE.COM>
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Subject:      invoke a UNIX shell script from SAS and pass in a variable value
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Any help with this will be gratefully received.

I need to execute a UNIX shell script and be able to pass in a value
each time I run it.  the value will be read from a SAS table and
probably be in the form of a SAS macro variable

Anyone know how I set up the call in SAS to pass the value and also
how I set up the script to receive it?

I'm guessing it wil be something like this on the SAS side:

%sysexec /home/myuser/mysript &value;

but no idea about the UNIX script side.