Append symbol

Another name for the greater than ( > ) symbol when referring to a command in a command line environment such as MS-DOS or Linux. For example, in the below example the append symbol is between the command and the output file that stores the output. dir > dirout.txt In the above example, instead of outputting the results of the dir command to the screen all output would be stored in the dirout.txt file. echo this is an example >> test.txt In the next example, this command would append "this is an example" to the end of the test.txt file. This is a useful command if you want to append data to a file without deleting any data that the file may already have.

Also see: Append, Greater than, Symbol