bash scripts creating log files

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

Hi, everyone.

I'm trying to write a bash script which is basically a wrapper around a
number of other commands.

What I _want_ to do is basically _copy_ stdout and stderr to a log file.

Thus, when I run a command, I wans the stdout and stderr to go to
wherever called the script (eg an interactive terminal) but I _also_
want it to go to a log file.

I can do it easily for things I'm echoing in my own script by writing a
function like this:


	function ECHO
	{
	    echo $1
	    echo $1 >> ${Logfile}
	}

and then any messages which I generate I use ECHO instead of echo:

	ECHO "This is a message"

What I can't figure out is how do I redirect the output of the things
I'm running to the same 2 places?

Anyone know a nice easy way to do this?

Tnx.

Paul.




-- 
Paul Furness

Systems Manager

2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2.

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