# Issues with println buffering output when redirecting stdout to a txt file

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-println-buffering-output-when-redirecting-stdout-to-a-txt-file/23738>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-println-buffering-output-when-redirecting-stdout-to-a-txt-file/23738 "2019-05-01T15:12:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-println-buffering-output-when-redirecting-stdout-to-a-txt-file/23738/14 "2019-05-02T05:22:27Z")

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> [@jonbarkerlondon](#):
>
> That would be nice, unfortunately we have a few thousand lines of julia code that i don’t want to do a find/replace in 🙂

Using a wrapper type would be a clean solution. Eg (just a starting point, modify/extend as needed):

```julia
struct FlushingIO{T}
    io::T
end

function Base.print(io::FlushingIO, args...)
    print(io.io, args...)
    flush(io.io)
end

out = FlushingIO(stdout)
my_function(out, ...)

```

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