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Old 05-13-2009
Question Help with adding logging to a script

I'm pretty new to bash shell scripting and I was wondering how to add some logging to a script?Smilie
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Old 05-13-2009

Code:
logfile=/path/to/logfile
printf "%s\n" "whatever" >> "$logfile"

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Old 05-14-2009
Power Re: Help with adding logging to a script

Thanks!
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