Send both standardOutput and errorOutput to a single file

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When defining an Exec task, is it possible to redirect both standardOutput and errorOutput to the same file, so they are interleaved as they happen? I tried this:

def logFile = file("${temporaryDir}/output.txt")
standardOutput = logFile.newOutputStream()
errorOutput = standardOutput

This sometimes seems to work and sometimes fails with java.io.IOException: Stream Closed. For now I’m sending the two streams to two separate files, but is there any (simple) way to use only one?

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Instead of using java.io.OutputStream, try using java.io.FileOutputStream. It overrides its finalize() method to only call close() after all references to it are removed.