APPEND

APPEND

Appends the specified pathname to the existing value of the specified system option

Default: none

Valid in: SAS invocation, SASV8_OPTIONS environment variable, configuration file

UNIX specifics: all

Syntax
Details
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Syntax

-APPEND system-option new-pathname

system-option: can be HELPLOC, MAPS, MSG, SASAUTOS, SASHELP.
new-pathname: is the new pathname that you want to append to the current value of system-option.

Details

By default, if you specify the HELPLOC, MAPS, MSG, SASAUTOS, or SASHELP system option more than one time, the last value that is specified is the value that SAS uses. If you want to add additional pathnames to the pathnames already specified by one of these options, you must use the APPEND system option to add the new pathname. For example, if you entered the following SAS command, the only location that SAS will look for help files is /apps/help and the output of PROC OPTIONS will show only /apps/help:

sas -helploc /sas/help -helploc /apps/help

If you want SAS to look in both locations for help files, you must use the APPEND option:

sas -helploc /sas/help -append helploc /apps/help

For the value of the HELPLOC option, PROC OPTIONS will now show

('/sas/help' '/apps/help')

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Default:	none
Valid in:	SAS invocation, SASV8_OPTIONS environment variable, configuration file
UNIX specifics:	all