Yrurtj

I have 5 SAS jobs that I need to run sequentially, one after the other.

I typically type in nohup sas filename1.sas & in the command line to run and manually check for progress every few hours.
If the 1st job is complete and no error, I then type in the 2nd job nohup sas filename2.sas & .

Is there a sas code or unix command I can run them sequentially rather than manually checking progress?

I thought about using %include statement in a master sas file, however I have many loop macros and do if then macros which throw the %include off I believe.

PS. I also need the log and lst file to be printed, typically it's printed for me automatically using the command above.

there are a couple of ways you can check if you have jobs running. Lets say you ran the command

nohup sas filename1.sas &

you should see something like this in return:

[1] 7539

[mel@server] $ nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'

you can check the existence of process number 7539 using an infinite loop as follows:

PID=${!} # this must be run immediately after submitting your job

flag=0

while [ $flag -eq 0 ]

do

  sleep 30    

  ps -ef | grep ${PID} | grep -v grep >/dev/null

  flag=${?}

done

echo "process ${PID} completed or died"

or you can do something in more crude way:

flag=1

while [ ${flag} -ne 0 ]

do

  sleep 30

  flag=$(jobs|wc -l)

done

echo "all background jobs have finished or died"

either of these methods will check existence of your background jobs every 30 seconds and completes when there is no job running in the background. First method is my preference.

EDIT (Per comments below):

To run all 5 jobs running one after the other, regardless of success or failure of preceding job, you can do this (note that, code below assumes your sas job filenames are in the format of filename1.sas , filename2.sas , ... , filename5.sas):

>nohup.out

for i in 1 2 3 4 5

do

  nohup sas filename${i}.sas &

  PID=${!} 

  flag=0

  while [ $flag -eq 0 ]

  do

    sleep 30    

    ps -ef | grep ${PID} | grep -v grep >/dev/null

    flag=${?}

  done  # end of while loop

  echo "process ${PID} completed or died"

  mv nohup.out filename${i}.log # preserve a separate log file for each job

  # if you know the successful and failed exit codes of sas process, 

  # you can compare the result to those values here. Since you did not 

  # provide any exit codes, this is left as is.

done  # end of for loop