Hi, Derek!

Have you tried %sysexec?

%sysexec 'cd /your_dir';
%sysexec 'ls -la|your_file';

data sasfile;
  use your_file here....

Untested, of course! ;-)

- Pat
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Fu -digest [mailto:derek.fu@COVANCE.COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 10:08 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: filesize of sas datasets

Hi Group,

I'd like to know if there are ways in SAS which let you get information on
filesize of SAS datasets on UNIX platform.  I want to use this  filesize
information on a report.

Thanks,
Derek

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