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![Calling Windows PowerShell from SAS: a simple example](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2011/09/getprocessSimple.png)
As I mentioned in my introductory post about Windows PowerShell, you can use PowerShell commands as a simple and concise method to collect data from your Windows systems -- information that is ripe for analysis within SAS. In this example, I'll show a technique for using a SAS program to