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How to change back to standard output console?

I tried to PrintStream to a text file for writing a bunch of output to a file.

But after the file is created, I was trying to switch back to the standard output just to continue on with other processes, but I have no idea about doing that switch. Seems like I have to setOut to the standard console, but how do I do that?

Below is the code that I used to output to a text file. Any ideas?

PrintStream out = new PrintStream(fistr);
System.setOut(out);

Thanks.

Solution

  • Why don't you save it before modifying it, so that you can go back?

    PrintStream standard = System.out;
PrintStream out = new PrintStream(fistr);
System.setOut(out);
/*
 some other stuff
*/
System.setOut(standard);