This might have already been asked before, but I haven't found a solution that quite fits my situation.

I have a program that repeatedly prints questions to the user and waits for user input (all in console). I don't clear the screen after each question/response, so the result is all of the questions and the user's answers just sitting there in the console.

Now my question is how do I take whatever is in the console at that current moment and save it into a text file? The way that my program is currently setup makes it illogical to individually save all of my prints and the user's scanner inputs into a text file.

Is there a way to simply read whatever is in the console at that moment and save it into a text file?

CodePudding user response：

Instead of directly calling the System.out.print methods, you can create your own print method that both outputs to the console and stores what was output into a buffer. Then, you can directly write the buffer to a file when necessary.

Alternatively, System.setOut can be used in conjunction with Apache Commons TeeOutputStream.