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Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console?

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On 01/31/2012 12:18 AM, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
> frame<xsli2@yahoo.com>  writes:
>
>> 1)at the beginning of the program, I added a little piece of code(re-
>> direct the System output to a file), now all the existing 500
>> System.out.println(..) prints to a file, not the console any more --
>> this is not good, because the program runs up to 5 hours, we hope to
>> see the message progressively on the console. With this approach, we
>> have to wait till the program finished and open the text file to read.
>
> Can't you use tail -f on another console (or equivalent for windows)?
>
> And of course, other people have suggested replacing System.out with a
> stream that prints to both console and a file.
> However, redirecting the output and reading the file simultaneously with
> tail might be possible without even recompiling the program.

Or he could use the actual 'tee' command as suggested upstream. Or he could do 
the right thing and drop the stupid 'System.out' logging and use a real 
logging framework. ONE COMES WITH JAVA for Pete's sake!

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-30 12:03 -0800
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-30 20:18 +0000
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-30 20:42 -0800
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-01-30 14:18 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:34 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 14:37 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 20:08 -0500
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 17:18 -0800
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 21:00 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:33 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:35 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-31 10:09 -0800
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:11 -0800
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-31 20:39 -0500
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-01 06:01 -0800
          Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2012-02-01 19:15 +0000
            Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-01 12:59 -0800
              Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-01 14:00 -0800
          Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-01 19:27 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-30 18:49 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 21:56 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 19:06 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-30 20:46 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-30 21:18 -0800
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-31 20:36 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-01-31 10:18 +0200
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:15 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2012-01-31 09:50 +0000
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:17 -0800

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