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So I'm using a BufferedWriter and would like to write some text to a text file. 

try {
   BufferedWriter b = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter ("/home/usr/Desktop/logger/logs.txt"));
   b.write("hello");
} catch (Exception e1) { e1.printStackTrace(); }

For some reason the text document is being created but nothing is being written to it, why is this?

MKB
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user2612619
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  • You might need to close b. – ZillGate Dec 11 '13 at 01:56
  • possible duplicate of [BufferedWriter not writing everything to its output file](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13426142/bufferedwriter-not-writing-everything-to-its-output-file) – Raedwald Jan 03 '15 at 11:08

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You need to close BufferedWriter, or use try-with-resource

BufferedWriter b = new BufferedWriter(
new FileWriter ("/home/usr/Desktop/logger/logs.txt"));
b.write("hello");

//After writing close the resource
b.close();
Masudul
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