Executing an operating system command from within SAS | SAS Code Fragments

* this example shows how you can call the operating system (in this
* example UNIX) to execute a command during your SAS program.

DATA test;
  do a = 1 to 100;
    output;
  end;
run;

data _null_;
  set test;
  file "test.txt";
  put a;
run;
x "rm test2.txt";
x "head ~/test.txt > test2.txt" ;
data test2;
  infile "test2.txt";
  input a;
run;
proc print data=test2;
run;