System Options under UNIX

APPEND System Option: UNIX

Used when SAS starts; appends the specified value to the existing value at the end of the specified system option.

Default:	none
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	ENVFILES
UNIX specifics:	all

Syntax
Details
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Syntax

-APPEND system-option new-option-value

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

Details

By default, if you specify the FMTSEARCH, 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 the following:

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