Or just create a data set with your lines and then use proc report; proc report can set the variable label to blank so you just get your lines. Something like this works:

data myoutput; informat line $128.; line='this is my first line'; output; line='this is my second line'; output; run;

proc report data=myoutput nowindows; column line; define line/display " "; run;

-Mary

--- matt@TPLUS1.COM wrote:

From: "W. Matthew Wilson" <matt@TPLUS1.COM> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: I just want to write a few lines to STDOUT Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:16:19 -0400

Hi --

I run most of my SAS programs from the command-line, sort of like this:

> sas myprog.sas

My "sas" program is really a script that runs my sas program and then checks the return code and tells me what it returned.

Anyhow, I want to write a few lines to standard output from myprog.sas but I don't know how. I know how to write to a file:

filename outfile "out.txt"; data _null_; file outfile; put "blah blah blah"; run;

I'm baffled how to write to STDOUT (aka file descriptor #2).

Any pointers? I'm working on windows right now.

Matt

-- W. Matthew Wilson matt@tplus1.com http://tplus1.com