sas command followed by the name of that file.
(The names of SAS programs run in this manner traditionally have
the file extension .sas.)
SAS runs your program and creates two files for your use, one
containing the SAS Log and the other containing any output. If
you used the filename in the example above, these files would be
called myprogram.log
and myprogram.lst, respectively.
To run this batch program in the background, simply put an ampersand (&) after the file specification:
sas myprogram.sas &
When you have done this, you can perform other tasks in the foreground, and if you wish, you can logout and your job will continue to completion.