java -version doesn't write to stdout?

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Published on 2010-05-20T09:25:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 9:32 UTC
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Hi there,

Either I'm doing something silly or Sun is. How come something like:

java -version > version.txt

Still prints out to stdout and leaves version.txt empty? I'm checking out the exit code, and it's still 0, so is not that's writing to stderr.

I need this because I'm building a test-environment tool and want to check if the version of Java is adequate, I was planning to catch that version output, but now I'm stuck.

I'm on OS X Leopard, Java version 1.6.0_20.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Juan

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