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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project default="antunit" xmlns:au="antlib:org.apache.ant.antunit">
+  <import file="../antunit-base.xml" />
+
+  <target name="testOutputProperty"
+          description="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47602">
+    <mkdir dir="${input}"/>
+    <echo file="${input}/A.java"><![CDATA[
+public class A {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        System.err.println("to System.err");
+        System.out.println("to System.out");
+    }
+}]]></echo>
+    <mkdir dir="${output}"/>
+    <javac srcdir="${input}" destdir="${output}"/>
+    <java fork="false" classname="A" outputproperty="out"
+          errorproperty="err">
+      <classpath location="${output}"/>
+    </java>
+    <au:assertPropertyEquals name="out" value="to System.out"/>
+    <au:assertPropertyEquals name="err" value="to System.err"/>
+  </target>
+</project>
+