DECHO(1)

DECHO(1)                  ZOAU Command Syntax                DECHO(1)

decho - Echo text to a fully qualified PDS member or sequential dataset.

decho [-adfhv] "text" <DATASET>

-a
    Append to the dataset instead of overwriting it.

-d
    Print out debug messages.

-f
    Force open. Open dataset member in DISP=SHR mode.
    When not provided, the default is DISP=OLD.

-h
    Display syntax help.

-v
    Print out verbose command information.

Write text, which may be multiple lines, to a dataset.
If the -a option is specified, text will be appended to the end
of the existing dataset or PDS member.

If the -a option is not specified, the contents of the dataset
will be overwritten.

decho also accepts text from stdin.

If the provided text starts with a dash (-), it will be treated
like an command line argument. To avoid this, specify a double
dash (--) immediately prior to the text argument. This will
terminate argument processing and treat the next argument as the
text to be echoed.  See EXAMPLES for more information.

Write 3 lines of text to the dataset TSTRADM.PROG.SYSIN:

    decho "Line 1
    Line 2
    Line 3" tstradm.prog.sysin

Write one line of text to the PDS member TEST.TEXT(MSG).
Then append a second line of text to the PDS member:

    decho 'Hello' 'test.text(msg)'
    decho -a 'Goodbye' 'test.text(msg)'

Write one line of text to the dataset TSTRADM.PROG.SYSIN:

    echo "line 1" | decho "STRADM.PROG.SYSIN"

Write a line of text starting with a hyphen to the dataset
ZOAU.TEST:

    decho -- "-Hello, world!" ZOAU.TEST

0
    Dataset or PDS member was updated successfully.

non-zero
    decho encountered an error. See error messages for details.