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Old 10-17-2014
Enable logging from within the shell script

Bash on Oracle Linux 6.3

I have a shell script whose output I want to redict to a log file. So, I can simply redirect the output as shown below.

Code:
# cat myscript.sh
#### I actually want some logging mechanism here which will redirect the output to a log file
echo 'hello world'

# ./myscript.sh > /tmp/mylog.txt
#
# cat /tmp/mylog.txt
hello world

But, this script is not going to be executed manually or through cron job. Instead, it is invoked by Symantec Netbackup program remotely.
So, I don't get a chance to redirect the output to a log file as shown above.
So, I need to have some mechanism within the script itself to redirect the output to a file. Any idea how I can do this ?
 

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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with: #! /usr/bin/env atf-sh Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter: #! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. SEE ALSO
atf-sh(3) BSD
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