Redirect standard output to a file?

Question

I want to write a function which would redirect the standard output to a file where the name of the file is "name".log where "name" is the argument to the function

void redirect(char *name) {

I don't know where to begin.

Answer 1

You can use freopen()

// code copied from the link
#include <stdio.h>
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FILE *fp;
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fp = freopen ("/tmp/logfile", "a+", stdout);
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