diff --git a/cake/console/console_output.php b/cake/console/console_output.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * ConsoleOutput an object to provide methods for generating console output.
+ * Can be connected to any stream resource that can be used with fopen()
+ *
+ * PHP 5
+ *
+ * CakePHP(tm) : Rapid Development Framework (http://cakephp.org)
+ * Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
+ *
+ * Licensed under The MIT License
+ * Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
+ *
+ * @copyright     Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
+ * @link          http://cakephp.org CakePHP(tm) Project
+ * @package       cake
+ * @subpackage    cake.cake.console
+ * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 2.0
+ * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
+ */
+class ConsoleOutput {
+/**
+ * File handle for output.
+ *
+ * @var resource
+ */
+	protected $_output;
+
+/**
+ * Constant for a newline.
+ */
+	const LF = PHP_EOL;
+
+/**
+ * Construct the output object.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function __construct($stream = 'php://stdout') {
+		$this->_output = fopen($stream, 'w');
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Outputs a single or multiple messages to stdout. If no parameters
+ * are passed outputs just a newline.
+ *
+ * @param mixed $message A string or a an array of strings to output
+ * @param integer $newlines Number of newlines to append
+ * @return integer Returns the number of bytes returned from writing to stdout.
+ */
+	public function write($message, $newlines = 1) {
+		if (is_array($message)) {
+			$message = implode(self::LF, $message);
+		}
+		return $this->_write($message . str_repeat(self::LF, $newlines));
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Writes a message to the output stream
+ *
+ * @param string $message Message to write.
+ * @return boolean success
+ */
+	protected function _write($message) {
+		return fwrite($this->_output, $message);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * clean up and close handles
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function __destruct() {
+		fclose($this->_output);
+	}
+}
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diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/console/console_output.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/console/console_output.test.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * ShellDispatcherTest file
+ *
+ * PHP 5
+ *
+ * CakePHP(tm) Tests <http://book.cakephp.org/view/1196/Testing>
+ * Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under The MIT License
+ * Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice
+ *
+ * @copyright     Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * @link          http://book.cakephp.org/view/1196/Testing CakePHP(tm) Tests
+ * @package       cake
+ * @subpackage    cake.tests.cases.console
+ * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 1.2.0.5432
+ * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
+ */
+
+require_once CAKE . 'console' .  DS . 'console_output.php';
+
+class ConsoleOutputTest extends CakeTestCase {
+
+/**
+ * setup
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function setUp() {
+		parent::setUp();
+		$this->output = $this->getMock('ConsoleOutput', array('_write'));
+	}
+
+/**
+ * tearDown
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function tearDown() {
+		unset($this->output);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * test writing with no new line
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function testWriteNoNewLine() {
+		$this->output->expects($this->once())->method('_write')
+			->with('Some output');
+
+		$this->output->write('Some output', false);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * test writing with no new line
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function testWriteNewLine() {
+		$this->output->expects($this->once())->method('_write')
+			->with('Some output' . PHP_EOL);
+
+		$this->output->write('Some output');
+	}
+
+/**
+ * test write() with multiple new lines
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function testWriteMultipleNewLines() {
+		$this->output->expects($this->once())->method('_write')
+			->with('Some output' . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL);
+
+		$this->output->write('Some output', 4);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * test writing an array of messages.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function testWriteArray() {
+		$this->output->expects($this->once())->method('_write')
+			->with('Line' . PHP_EOL . 'Line' . PHP_EOL . 'Line' . PHP_EOL);
+
+		$this->output->write(array('Line', 'Line', 'Line'));
+	}
+
+}
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