From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Furness Subject: bash scripts creating log files Date: 17 Sep 2002 12:15:53 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1032261353.7489.17.camel@Zebra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs