Martin Gregorie wrote: > > Code: > $ se & >x.txt > > You have an extra space between "&" and ">". Drop it and see what happens. And just in case you didn't look at 'man bash', here's the part you should have looked for: > > Redirecting Standard Output and Standard Error > Bash allows both the standard output (file descriptor 1) and the standard error output (file descriptor 2) to be redirected to the > file whose name is the expansion of word with this construct. > > There are two formats for redirecting standard output and standard error: > > &>word > and > >&word > > Of the two forms, the first is preferred. This is semantically equivalent to > > >word 2>&1 > flyfisherman wrote: > "c:\program files\sierra\fear\fear.exe" >log.txt 2>errlog.txt gives me an empty log.txt file. errlog.txt gives me data but i don't know what to do with it. from my terminal, not the wine console i get this after executing the command in wine console Make sure Wine is not running (run "wineserver -k"). Then run your game. If it still crashes, try with new wineprefix (or rename ~/.wine directory) and reinstall the game. See AppDB for any HOWTOs related to the program you are running