[SOLVED] Duplicate output for log it

[debuti]

Hi all.

I'm making a bash script.
I want it's output is printed to the console as well as to a file.
How to do that ?

Currently I do that plainly stupid like this
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LOG=/var/log/mylog

echo Hello
echo Hello >> $LOG

echo Hello again
echo Hello again >> $LOG

echo Another hello again
echo Another hello again >> $LOG
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There must be a smarter way. Please show me. Thanks

[melopsittacus]

I am not sure whether this works, but you could try removing the lines that write into files. Then you could call the script with two redirections:

./yourscript >/var/log/mylog >&1

Unfortunately I cannot try this out right now in Ubuntu as I am logged in Windows.

[dwhitney67]

Use 'tee'.

For example:


#!/bin/sh
LOG=/var/log/mylog

echo My message is | tee -a $LOG
echo not that important. | tee -a $LOG
...

Of course, you will need the appropriate permissions to create a file in /var/log.

[geirha]

You can also do some bash magic at the beginning and the end of the script to avoid piping to tee for every echo.



#!/bin/bash

LOG=/tmp/logfile
# Save current stdout to file descriptor 3, and redirect stdout to tee
exec 3>&1 > >(tee -a "$LOG")

echo This will be output both to the logfile
echo and stdout

# Restore stdout and close file descriptor 3 before we exit
exec 1>&3 3>&-