Redirect lots of system.out.println's to a .txt file
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Print java output to a file
In a Java program, I have a long method, (which I don't think is important to post since it's not vital to the question) that has a large number of println statements to print status updates to the console.
Instead of having these printout to the console, I'd like them to go into a txt file where I can store them and review them later.
Is there a simple way to redirect the output without manually going through each println statement?
If not, what's the best way to go about this?
Answer
I have had to do this before, it isn't very neat and I hope you aren't doing it for a final piece of code, but I did:
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream("\file.txt");
PrintStream orig = System.out;
System.setOut(ps);
//TODO: stuff with System.out.println("some output");
System.setOut(orig);
ps.close();