Template for a basic shell script. This provides a sample of logging from a shell script.
#! /bin/sh
## 2012-11-07 Vik Solem
## template for shell scripts
MYname=`basename $0`
ROOT="${HOME}/${MYname}"
LOGDIR="${ROOT}logs/`date +'%Y-%m'`/"
DATADIR="${ROOT}data/`date +'%Y-%m'`/"
NOW=`date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S'`
LOGFILE=${LOGDIR}${MYname}.log_$$_${NOW}
DATAFILE=${DATADIR}${MYname}.dat_$$_${NOW}
mkdir -p ${ROOT}
mkdir -p ${LOGDIR}
mkdir -p ${DATADIR}
log() {
echo `date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S'`" $*" | tee -a ${LOGFILE}
}
cmd() {
log "$*"
$* 2>&1 | tee -a ${LOGFILE}
}
skip() {
log "SKIPPING this command: $*"
}
log Start
cmd ls
skip cmd rm file-to-delete
log Finish