Any way to have an ActionScript 3 (Flex/AIR) project print to standard output?

Question

Is there any way to have a binary compiled from an ActionScript 3 project print stuff to stdout when executed?

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Answer 1

With AIR on Linux, it is easy to write to stdout, since the process can see its own file descriptors as files in /dev.

For stdout, open /dev/fd/1 or /dev/stdout as a FileStream, then write to that.

Example:

var stdout : FileStream = new FileStream();
stdout.open(new File("/dev/fd/1"), FileMode.WRITE);
stdout.writeUTFBytes("test\n");
stdout.close();

Note: See this answer for the difference between writeUTF() and writeUTFBytes() - the latter will avoid garbled output on stdout.