Help redirecting files as input/output in C#

[Jackolantern]

Alright I am trying to use C# for a school lab. It is either that or use Java like everyone else or learn Ada

But we have to get all input from a text file and output to another text file. In Java, this is as simple as having 2 text files and entering

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C:\>java program < input.txt > output.txt

and then all input comes from the input text file and all output goes to the output text file.

Looking up the same thing in C#, I can't seem to find how to do this in a simple way. All the .NET options are all giving options using the processes, 40+ lines of code, dozens of objects, and some even using TPL. Just writing the code to expect keyboard input and then piping the file name or trying the Java way doesn't work. Is there a simple way to do this?

EDIT: Oh, and this is just a simple console application with POCOs ("Plain Ol' CLR Objects").

[a_bertrand]

If your soft is a command line tool you can do exactly the same in C#.

[Jackolantern]

Hmm...I must have had some kind of coding error, as it is working fine now. Thanks!

[Jackolantern]

Ohhh, that crap I was talking about finding before, with 40 lines of code, the process object, etc., was for taking in file data for compilation. That would be quite rare someone would need that, but for some reason it was all I was finding online.

And the reason it didn't work the first time I tried that sent me looking online was just due to a type-mismatch that gave an odd error message