mp_unzip.sas File Reference

Unzips a zip file. More...

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Detailed Description

Opens the zip file and copies all the contents to another directory. It is not possible to retain permissions / timestamps, also the BOF marker is lost so it cannot extract binary files.

Usage:

filename mc url
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sasjs/core/main/all.sas";
%inc mc;

%mp_unzip(ziploc="/some/file.zip",outdir=/some/folder)

More info: https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2015/05/11/using-filename-zip-to-unzip-and-read-data-files-in-sas/

Parameters

[in]	ziploc=	Fileref or quoted full path, eg: "/path/to/file.zip"
[out]	outdir=	(sysfunc(pathname(work))) Directory in which to write the outputs (created if needed)

SAS Macros

• mf_mkdir.sas
• mf_getuniquefileref.sas
• mp_binarycopy.sas

Version

9.4

Author

Allan Bowe @source https://github.com/sasjs/core

Definition in file mp_unzip.sas.