The COPY Procedure

Syntax: COPY Procedure

Restriction:	PROC COPY ignores concatenations with catalogs. Use PROC CATALOG COPY to copy concatenated catalogs.
Restriction:	PROC COPY does not support data set options.
Tip:
Tip:	Complete documentation for the COPY statement and the COPY procedure is in COPY Statement.
Table of Contents:	The COPY Procedure

PROC COPY OUT=libref-1 IN=libref-2
<CLONE|NOCLONE>
<CONSTRAINT=YES|NO>
<DATECOPY>
<INDEX=YES|NO>
<MEMTYPE=(mtype-1 <...mtype-n>)>
<MOVE <ALTER=alter-password>>;

EXCLUDE SAS-file-1 <...SAS-file-n> </ MEMTYPE=mtype>;

SELECT SAS-file-1 <...SAS-file-n> </ <MEMTYPE=mtype>
<ALTER=alter-password>>;

Note:

The links in the following table are to the DATASETS procedure documentation, which explains these options. [cautionend]

Task		Option
Copy one or more files		PROC COPY
Exclude files or memtypes		EXCLUDE
Name of source library		IN= (required)
Name of destination library		OUT= (required)
Select files or memtypes		SELECT

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