APPEND System Option: UNIX

Used when SAS starts; appends the specified value to the existing value at the end of the specified system option.
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Category: Environment control: Files
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= ENVFILES
Default: none
UNIX specifics: configuration file, SAS invocation syntax
Note: This option cannot be restricted by a site administrator. For more information, see Restricted Options in SAS System Options: Reference.
See: APPEND= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference
Syntax
Details
See Also

Syntax

-APPEND system-option new-option-value

Required Arguments

system-option
can be FMTSEARCH, HELPLOC, MAPS, MSG, SASAUTOS, SASHELP, SASSCRIPT, SET, AUTOEXEC, or CMPLIB.
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 AUTOEXEC, CMPLIB, FMTSEARCH, HELPLOC, MAPS, MSG, SASAUTOS, SASHELP, SASSCRIPT, or SET 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 additional pathnames. For example, if you enter the following SAS command, the only location in which SAS looks for help files is /apps/help. The output of PROC OPTIONS shows only /apps/help: 
sas -helploc /sas/help -helploc /apps/help
If you want SAS to look first in /sas/help, and then in /apps/help, use the APPEND option. 
sas -helploc /sas/help -append helploc /apps/help
For the value of the HELPLOC option, PROC OPTIONS now shows the following: 
('/sas/help' '/apps/help')

See Also

System Options:
APPEND= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference
INSERT System Option: UNIX
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