Compilation Batch File Won't Pipe To File

[Luc The Perverse]

I tried to make a batch file for compiling Java programs. It looked
something like this

echo off
cls
D:\j2sdk1.4.2_09\bin\javac %1.java>Out.txt
type Out.txt
notepad Out.txt

Except, for some reason nothing gets sent to Out.txt

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I tried to make a batch file for compiling Java programs. It looked
something like this

echo off
[1]

cls
D:\j2sdk1.4.2_09\bin\javac %1.java>Out.txt
type Out.txt
notepad Out.txt

Except, for some reason nothing gets sent to Out.txt

What am I doing wrong?

Start with [1]. Why are you suppressing output when
things are breaking?

But then ..why would you be getting compilation
output, unless there are compilation errors in the
source? 'javac' is pretty quiet about success.

 

[Luc The Perverse]

I tried to make a batch file for compiling Java programs. It looked
something like this

echo off
[1]

cls
D:\j2sdk1.4.2_09\bin\javac %1.java>Out.txt
type Out.txt
notepad Out.txt

Except, for some reason nothing gets sent to Out.txt

What am I doing wrong?

Start with [1]. Why are you suppressing output when
things are breaking?

But then ..why would you be getting compilation
output, unless there are compilation errors in the
source? 'javac' is pretty quiet about success.

At least while I'm starting, it is a struggle to get it to work, so I
recompile, recompile, recompile . . . then finally when it has all syntax
bugs out, then I run it.

 

[Ben_]

javac writes errors on StdErr.

So, you need to redirect StdErr stream to the file.

Add a '2' before the '>' sign and write it [javac %1.java 2> Out.txt]

 

[Luc The Perverse]

javac writes errors on StdErr.

So, you need to redirect StdErr stream to the file.

Add a '2' before the '>' sign and write it [javac %1.java 2> Out.txt]

Hmm - I don't know why that would work, but I will go try it.

 

[Ben_]

Hmm - I don't know why that would work, but I will go try it

Why disregard people advise ?

Note, you can also use the non-standard command-line switch:
-Xstdout filename
Send compiler messages to the named file. By default, compiler messages go
to System.err.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/javac.html

 

[Alan Krueger]

javac writes errors on StdErr.

So, you need to redirect StdErr stream to the file.

Add a '2' before the '>' sign and write it [javac %1.java 2> Out.txt]

While I often use this and the "2>&1" idiom to join stderr into the
stdout pipe, I've found in some cases these only work at the command
line and not within bat/cmd files.

 

[Roedy Green]

D:\j2sdk1.4.2_09\bin\javac %1.java>Out.txt

is Javac sending to system.out or system.err?

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/console.html