Demonstrates redirecting the Console output to a file

 
/*
C# Programming Tips & Techniques
by Charles Wright, Kris Jamsa

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (December 28, 2001)
ISBN: 0072193794
*/

// Redirect.cs -- Demonstrates redirecting the Console output to a file
//
//                Compile this program with the following command line:
//                    C:>csc Redirect.cs
//
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace nsStreams
{
    public class Redirect
    {
        static public void Main ()
        {
            FileStream ostrm;
            StreamWriter writer;
            TextWriter oldOut = Console.Out;
            try
            {
                ostrm = new FileStream ("./Redirect.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
                writer = new StreamWriter (ostrm);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine ("Cannot open Redirect.txt for writing");
                Console.WriteLine (e.Message);
                return;
            }
            Console.SetOut (writer);
            Console.WriteLine ("This is a line of text");
            Console.WriteLine ("Everything written to Console.Write() or");
            Console.WriteLine ("Console.WriteLine() will be written to a file");
            Console.SetOut (oldOut);
            writer.Close();
            ostrm.Close();
            Console.WriteLine ("Done");
        }
    }
}

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