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Reputation: 521

Rerouting the SAS logs to a specific location in shell scripting

I have created a shell script which runs a SAS program which is created log in the same folder where I'm running Shell script. But, I'm trying to save the logs to a specific folder on LINUX. I used -log option and it is throwing me error...I'm running following command in my shell script... 

/saspath/sas /homesas/test.sas   -log home/sasu1/log/test.log.$rundatetime \

I'm getting this error... -log: command not found

Upvotes: 0

Views: 246

Answers (1)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 51566

It is normal Unix convention to put the options (-log) before the parameters (filename) to a command.

sas -log xxx.log xxx.sas

Your real problem might be that you need to construct your log filename first.

pgm=test
log=${pgm}.${rundatetime}.log 
sas -log $log &pgm

Another thing to check is that some sites have build scripts to launch SAS and they do not properly pass the command line arguments through to the actual command that launches SAS. Check whether /saspath/sas is the actual command provided by SAS or something your local IT group created.

Upvotes: 1

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