Thread: Redirecting output at command line.

This should be easy, but it does not seem to be working . . .

All I want to do is output the help info to a file, and I am attempting to do it on the command line like this:

javac -help > com.txt

However, even though it generates the com.txt file, it is empty.

This is on a Windows 7 system.

Any suggestions?

The Bash command for what you're trying to do is:

javac -help 2> file.txt

because you're actually redirecting the stderr in this case.

Thanks Greg and Norm . . . your right, I should have mentioned it is for Windows 7 . . . I'll edit the original message, thanks!
I do not see any OS forums here on this site. I use CentOS too, but I am not using it in this case.

In the end, I found that it was easier just to right-click, select all, then go to the upper
left hand corner of the window and select "copy", then paste it into a file . . . .

It appears that when you adjust the Java environment to run the java and javac commands anywhere
on the command prompt, it then goes into the java mode, and cannot execute a dos-type command
such as >java -help > test.txt

So be it, I have better things to spend my time on.