Robot Framework: How to redirect console output to file

Maybe you just want to log it to you console (in case of Jenkins):

*** Keywords *** Log To Current Console [Arguments] ${TO_LOG} Log To Console \n\n${TO_LOG} 

Or sometimes it is nice to check the debug of your robot tests:

-b --debugfile file Debug file written during execution. Not created unless this option is specified. 

On a linux server you can just pipe the robot commandline to tee

robot -d results <test name>.robot | tee <test name>.out 

Apart from the suggestion from @Bryan, if you want to redirect your output (xml, log, report) to a particular directory or a file, you can use following options for pybot script:

-d --outputdir dir Where to create output files. The default is the directory where tests are run from and the given path is considered relative to that unless it is absolute. -o --output file XML output file. Given path, similarly as paths given to --log, --report, --xunit, and --debugfile, is relative to --outputdir unless given as an absolute path. Other output files are created based on XML output files after the test execution and XML outputs can also be further processed with Rebot tool. Can be disabled by giving a special value `NONE`. In this case, also log and report are automatically disabled. Default: output.xml -l --log file HTML log file. Can be disabled by giving a special value `NONE`. Default: log.html Examples: `--log mylog.html`, `-l NONE` -r --report file HTML report file. Can be disabled with `NONE` similarly as --log. Default: report.html 

If you run from code, you can do something like

import robot.run with open("message_out.log", "w") as log_file_out, open("message_err.log", "w") as log_file_err: robot.run("test", stdout=log_file_out, stderr=log_file_err)