STDIO

STDIO

Specifies that the SAS System should use stdin, stdout, and stderr

Default: NOSTDIO

Valid in: SAS invocation, SASV8_OPTIONS environment variable, configuration file

UNIX specifics: all

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Syntax

-STDIO|-NOSTDIO|-

Details

This option tells the SAS System to take its input from standard input (stdin), to write its log to standard error (stderr), and to write its output to standard output (stdout).

This option is designed for running the SAS System in batch mode or from a shell script. If you specify this option interactively, SAS starts a line mode session. The STDIO option overrides the DMS, DMSEXP, and EXPLORER system options.

You can specify -STDIO or simply a hyphen (-) by itself.

The STDIO option does not affect the assignment of the STDIO, STDIN, and STDERR filerefs. See Filerefs Assigned by the SAS System for more information.

For example, in the following SAS command, the file myinput is used as the source program, and files myoutput and mylog are used for the procedure output and log respectively.

sas -stdio < myinput > myoutput 2> mylog

If you are using the C shell, you should use parentheses:

(sas -stdio < myinput > myoutput ) >& output_log

See Also

Routing Output

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Default:	NOSTDIO
Valid in:	SAS invocation, SASV8_OPTIONS environment variable, configuration file
UNIX specifics:	all