File not found when use absolute path

[moonknight37]

I tried to use the compressor as "java -jar E:/yuicompressor-2.4.8.jar --type js --charset UTF-8 E:/tmp/src/my.js -o E:/tmp/src/my.min.js" . When run the command, I got an error like "java.io.FileNotFoundException: \tmp\src\my.min.js:\tmp\src\my.js". The full stack is:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: \tmp\src\my.min.js:\tmp\src\my.js
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:213)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:101)
at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.YUICompressor.main(YUICompressor.java:204)

[moonknight37]

I found a comment in class named YUICompressor, line number 159. Code is:
// if a substitution pattern was passed in
if (pattern.length > 1 && files.size() > 0) {
outputFilename = inputFilename.replaceFirst(pattern[0], pattern[1]);
}
The code block replaced the absolute path .

[TimLethbridge]

The workaround is to send the output to standard output and redirect it to a file. We had this problem and it worked for us.