DATASUS

Download DATASUS databases

This is a shell script to download datasets from DATASUS FTP server.

To download data, you have to pass the year as an argument:

./datasus.sh 15 # downloads all datasets from 2015

Note the script is designed to download the SIA-PA data. You can change the $DATABASE and the URL variables. Note you have to create a directory named dbfiles or change the $OUTDIR variable.

mkdir dbfiles

Using OpenMP

You can use OpenMP with datasus.c for multi-thread download. The default year is 2010. If you want to modify, change de global variable year. To compile, you can use the gcc compiler and setup the number of threads:

gcc -o datasus.out -fopenmp datasus.c
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=4 # for 4 threads
nohup ./datasus.c &> nohup_Cdatasus.out & # running in the backgroung