Using or Creating Files
Using or Creating Files -- Interface with the UNIX Operating
System
Several commands, noted below and in the SPSS documentation, use
or create UNIX files for your convenience. In general, UNIX
files are specified in SPSS programs inside single quotes. Files
in the current directory -- i.e., the directory where you invoked
SPSS -- may be specified by their file name alone. Files in
other subdirectories must be specified with the full almaak
pathname. Of course, the full almaak pathname may be used even
when files are in the current subdirectory. As of now,
the ~/ convention does not work in SPSS, but the
alternative $HOME usually can be used to stand for your home
directory. Each of the sections below dealing with external
files has an example or two showing how to specify file names in
SPSS commands.
Of course, UNIX is a case-sensitive system.
When file names are specified in an SPSS program, the names must
match exactly with respect to spelling as well as upper-lower case.