Date:         Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:37:07 -0800
Reply-To:     "Schwarz, Barry A" <barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM>
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From:         "Schwarz, Barry A" <barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Re: ls pipe command in linux giving non-existent filename
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Windows has an "ls" command?

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Spence
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:22 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: ls pipe command in linux giving non-existent filename

This only occurs when I run this in Linux, not on Windows.
The following code is just to read the filenames from a directory;

%let directory = /home/int;
filename indata pipe "ls &directory";
data file_list;
length filename $100;
infile indata truncover; /* infile statement for file names */ input
filename $100.; /* read the file names from the directory */ run;

The resulting dataset contains the following entries:

Obs    filename
1     Unknown host type i386-linux
2     interview_test_edit1.csv
3     interview_test_edit2.csv
4     interview_test_edit3.csv
5     interview_test_edit4.csv
6     interview_test_edit5.csv

Observation 1 does not exist, it is a system message. Any idea how to
suppress it. When I run the generated command from the CLI, this file
does not show up. TIA.