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