For those who might be interested, here is a sample set of code that uses a pipe plus some parsing. At this point, I have long since forgotten from whom I stole it.

Nat Wooding

** this uses a pipe to gather the names of files in a folder and reads a single line from each file. note the quotes in the filename statement;

filename ft33f001 pipe 'attrib "c:\*.txt" ' ;

data _null_; infile ft33f001 truncover; input @12 csvfile $256.; infile dummy filevar=csvfile firstobs=122 length=l ;

input line $varying256. l ; putlog 'NOTE: ' line=;

run;

*the following is an attempt at reading directory info; FileName MyDir Pipe 'dir "C:\park" ' ;

DATA all_dir; INFILE MyDir lrecl=300 truncover ; INPUT @ ; file print;

if index( _infile_ , '/' ) ;* get lines with dates; if index( _infile_ , '<' ) then delete;* get rid of directories;

informat date mmddyy10. time time. ampm $2. Size comma15. Name $25.; ; input date time ampm Size Name & ;

run; proc print; run;

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joe Matise Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:14 PM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Can SAS pull info about MS Window folders?

The dos command

dir /s

will get you the total size of a folder and all of its contents; and if you use it in a pipe, you can parse the piped output to determine each of the subfolders' names.

-Joe

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Andrea Zimmerman <sassywench74va@gmail.com>wrote:

> I know how to use SAS to create folders inside other folders, or to see if > a > folder exists, but I'm wondering if SAS can come back with info on all the > sub-folders within a specified folder. > > Specifically I'd like to get the size of the folder and all it's contents > (what I see if I let the mouse hover over the folder name, or if I right > click and select Properties) > > So I'd like to produce a SAS dataset with the name of all the subfolders in > a given folder, and the size of each of them. > > Thanks > > -- > Andrea W-Z >