Need script to change sql server job step properties - sql-server

currently im using Sql server 2008 r2 (will soon be upgrading to 2014). I need some help in changing job step properties using script.
I have around 20 jobs with each job having 4 steps.
I'm trying to change the below highlighted option using sql server script. Because manually changing all these options is a difficult task.
Please help me in writing script to remove the output log path, uncheck append to log, check log to table and check append log to table options.

I got the script
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_update_jobstep #job_id=N'5e998659-8539-45d2-bf4f-874375c0a111', #step_id=1 ,
#output_file_name=N'',
#flags=16

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See highlighted below:
You describe not being able to access that in the question for some reason. If you can't access that then something is wrong with SQL Server or perhaps you don't have admin rights to do things like schedule jobs (a guess there).
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