bash script logging

[kook44]

So I have this bash script that does a bunch of nice things and I've put in a lot of nice verbose logging with echo statements, but I need to capture the stdout & stderr in a logfile. Now it's a bit more complicated than redirecting the output with a >. Since it will be run periodically with crontab, i need to specify a unique filename for the log each time. The script creates a directory based on the time & some other things, and i'd like to be able to put the log for each run in there. can anyone think of a better way to do this than adding a > to every statement in the script?

thx

[sirlancelot]

In the crontab you can direct output to a log file and an error log like so...

00 00 * * * /usr/bin/cmd > ~/log/cron-myscript.out.log 2> ~/log/cron-myscript.err.log
Hope this helps! I'm new to bash and crontab too, just started experimenting with them tonight, be sure to do searches on your question before you post, there's a crontab tutorial (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102625) that I learned quite a bit from.