Append Pipe (>>) Token

Redirects STDOUT to a file and append its contents

Description

This is used to redirect the STDOUT of a command and append it to a file. If that file does not exist, then the file is created.

This behaves similarly to the Bash (et al) token except it doesn't support adding alternative file descriptor numbers. Instead you will need to use named pipes to achieve the same effect in Murex.

Examples

» out: "Hello" >> example.txt
» out: "World!" >> example.txt
» open: example.txt
Hello
World!

Detail

This is just syntactic sugar for -> >>. Thus when the parser reads code like the following:

echo "foobar" >> example.txt

it will compile an abstract syntax tree which would reflect the following code instead:

echo "foobar" | >> example.txt

Truncating a file

To truncate a file (ie overwrite its contents) use |> instead.

See Also

• Arrow Pipe (->) Token: Pipes STDOUT from the left hand command to STDIN of the right hand command
• POSIX Pipe (|) Token: Pipes STDOUT from the left hand command to STDIN of the right hand command
• Pipeline: Overview of what a "pipeline" is
• STDERR Pipe (?) Token: Pipes STDERR from the left hand command to STDIN of the right hand command
• <> / read-named-pipe: Reads from a Murex named pipe
• >> (append file): Writes STDIN to disk - appending contents if file already exists
• > (truncate file): Writes STDIN to disk - overwriting contents if file already exists
• ja (mkarray): A sophisticated yet simply way to build a JSON array