Date:         Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:50:32 -0400
Reply-To:     Randy Herbison <RandyHerbison@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Randy Herbison <RandyHerbison@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS program calling Cygwin?
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Do it just like any other command.  Here are 2 ways:

x "c:\cygwin\bin\tail c:\temp\test.txt";



filename tail pipe "c:\cygwin\bin\tail c:\temp\test.txt";

data _null_;
  infile tail;
  input;
  put _infile_;
run;

filename tail clear;

-Randy



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Subject: SAS program calling Cygwin?


Suppose I have Cygwin installed on my PC (I have) then I am guessing it might be possible to use Cygwin-emulated Linux commands through a SAS X call. Does anyone know how to do this? I can call SAS from Cygwin without any problem but how about calling Cygwin from SAS using X?