redirecting output of a console program to a file

[TheCoop]

i am having problems with quake3 atm, it freezes up X and doesnt start. therefore i have got to look at the console output from quake3 as it starts up, but i cant as i have to restart X when q3 freezes. how do i direct the output to a text file so i can have a look at it?
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[ShadyMilkman]

There is a way to redirect output with the > operator, but that doesn't work if the program is outputting to stderr (standard error) instead of stdout (standard out). Anyway, try this:

[bum@hobomobile hobo$] quake3 > error.log

if that doesn't work it means that it's outputting the errors to stderr and afaik there's no way to capture that output.

[thegarbageman]

You can try running quake in a terminal - then use the ">" character to redirect to a file.

[phong]

You can use &> to redirect standard error. I.e.

[rac]

"2>&1" will additionally duplicate stderr onto stdout, so they will both go to the same place.
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