public static Writer leftShift(Process self,Object value) throws IOException {
  return IOGroovyMethods.leftShift(self.getOutputStream(),value);
}

public static Writer leftShift ( Process self , Object value ) throws IOException { return IOGroovyMethods . leftShift ( self . getOutputStream ( ) , value ) ; }
overloads the left shift operator ( & lt ; & lt ; ) to provide an append mechanism to pipe data to a process .
