[UNIX] Is it safe to pipe the output of several parallel processes to one file using >> ?

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I'm scraping data from the web, and I have several processes of my scraper running in parallel.

I want the output of each of these processes to end up in the same file. As long as lines of text remain intact, I the order of the lines does not matter. In UNIX, can I just pipe the output of each process to the same file using the >> operator?

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