= SPSS Host =

The '''`HOST`''' command dispatches a command to the system shell.

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== Usage ==

{{{
host commands=['move "C:\path\to\my file" .'].
}}}

Note that the Window's console, `cmd`, does not interpret single quotes (`'`). Tokens containing spaces (like file names) must be quoted using double quotes (`"`).

Note that PSPP sets STDIN to `/dev/null`, and STDOUT and STDERR to PSPP's own output, for any `HOST` commands.

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== Data Model ==

The `HOST` command executes immediately. Pending transformations are ''not'' executed and the active dataset is ''not'' read.

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== See also ==

[[https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/HOST.html|PSPP manual for HOST]]



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