Is there a julia equivalent of R's sink() function?

New to Julia
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From time to time I would like to verbatim redirect output normally shown in the julia REPL to a text file. In R I do this by

sink('txtfile.txt')
interestingfunctionwithoutputs()
sink()

Does something like this exist in julia? The use case in this case is piping out the output from UnicodePlots to a text file without manually copy pasting.

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I don’t really see the need to redirect any output here, you can just use

julia> plt = lineplot([-1, 2, 3, 7], [-1, 2, 9, 4]);

julia> open("plot", "w") do io
           show(io, plt)
       end

For actually redirecting stdout there is the redirect_stdout function.

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Didn’t think of that. Indeed that fits the bill.