How to redirect console output to file and STILL get it in the console?

Use tee.

ant 2>&1|tee build.log

tee.exe is also available for Windows from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

windows shell batch-file unix

You can use tee.

Example:

$ echo "Hello, world" | tee /tmp/outfileHello, world$ cat /tmp/outfileHello, world

tee writes its stdin to both stdout as well as one or more files given on the command line.

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