Running Stata in batch mode

[Raffaele Palladino]

Dear Statalist,

I am using Stata through an online server and because of new setups the server logs me out after few hours. They explained me that in order to avoid losing everything I should run Stata (16 SE) in batch mode. I was looking at this guide https://www.stata.com/support/faqs/unix/batch-mode/ which suggests to use either this command

stata -b do filename &

or

nohup stata -b do filename & However, when I try to digit any of the two commands in the Stata command window and I replace "do" with the do-file pathway I get an error message that says that stata or nohup are not recognised commands. Could you plase advise? I know I should provide more detailed examples but I am a bit lost here and not sure how to proceed. Thanks

[William Lisowski]

Those commands are not Stata commands, they are Unix commands to be submitted at the Unix command prompt.

[David HajHooj]

Hello Raffaele,

Have you tried creating a do file that contain all of your do files that you want to run. For example create a dofile and call it run. in this do file do the following steps

clear all
set more off 


local project_folder "Path"
local dta_folder "Path/dta"
local code_folder "Path/code"


cd `dta_folder'
do `code_folder'Name.do

Then when you want to run the do file in the server go to your path and just type
stata -b do run.do

[Raffaele Palladino]

Thanks!

In the Unix command prompt I typed the following code but it doesn't seem to be working.

nohup stata -b do "/home/Documents/Do-files/Batch.do" &

The do-file should start rewriting a log file but nothing happens (I open the dataset directly from my do-file). The Unix command prompt doesn't give me error so I assume it is a problem with something else

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Could it be that the Stata directory is not in your system path? What happens if you run this from your terminal:

nohup /full/path/to/stata -b do "/home/Documents/Do-files/Batch.do"

[Raffaele Palladino]

Could it be that the Stata directory is not in your system path? What happens if you run this from your terminal:

nohup /full/path/to/stata -b do "/home/Documents/Do-files/Batch.do"

Hi, I am not sure how to check the full path of Stata in linux. But the database manager made me type this before the command

ssh -XY ganymede
module load stata/16.1