Utility for getting date of scritpt execution

[udragu]

Hello all!

I want to create some utility which will allow to get date of start execution and date of finishing some arbitrary script which filename was passed for this utility like a input param[It's assumed that scritp was started week ago and completed execution 1-2 days ago ]. I guess tha't bash is more preferable, But there is some problem , I think that parsing of Ubuntu logs is not simple tasks.
May be there is another way? My be somebody did such thing?
Thanks

[Lars Noodén]

If you're looking for the duration of the script, you can launch it with "time"

time /path/to/some/script

[udragu]

thnx, for reply.
But, No, I do not want get duration.
I need date of script successful finishing( I assume that it works without some interruption[cron etc])

[Lars Noodén]

Ok. Then you can either append date to the script itself or to the line when the script is called.

/path/to/some/script ; /bin/date +"Script done %F %T" > /var/log/script.log

If you want the end time only if the script was successful, use &&

/path/to/some/script && /bin/date +"Script done %F %T" > /var/log/script.log

[udragu]

Hm...all my attempts failed - "script: command not found"
Path is correct.

[Lars Noodén]

Can you show how you are calling the script?

[udragu]

user01@amrtkt: sudo /home/user01/scripts/t123.py ; /bin/date +"Script done %F %T" > ~/script.log

t123.py
contains just

print "123"

Result is "t123.py: command not found", Did I miss something?

[Lars Noodén]

Result is "t123.py: command not found", Did I miss something?

Yes. The first line of the script needs to tell which interpreter to use. So t123.py should contain the following at the minimum.

#!/usr/bin/python

print "123"

[udragu]

First
t123.py: command not found - nothing changes
t123.py works successful
Second:
I think you do not understand me.
Of course, there is a way to add some code into script which will save date and the end of it's execution, but the main Idea is to get date postfactum. For example, some script was started.Duration two weeks, just for fun). Execution of it was completed or interrupted(may be power outage was happened). And I need to know was result successful or not. I need something like windows event log but for scripts.

[udragu]

I understand that there is no method if script doesn't logs anything
If somebody intersted in such cases only auditit could be very useful