case 1 :
suppose I am passing a number of parameters to my shell script as follows :
./myshell_script a b c d
and if I run echo $# will give me number of parameters from command line I have pas...
How can a zsh script test whether it is being sourced?
The accepted answer for a similar question for bash does not seem to work for zsh. In fact, if I copy basically the same code given in that answer, to produce the script
#!/usr/bin/zsh -
# test.s...
I have a constantly running script that I output to a log file:
script.sh >> /var/log/logfile
I'd like to add a timestamp before each line that is appended to the log. Like:
Sat Sep 10 21...
Is there an easy way to log all activity that a shell script does?
Is there an easy way to log all activity that occurs from a shell script to a file?
I have a script. It outputs things like echo "instructions", as well as other program output. I know the comman...
I have a shell script with lots of echo in it. I would like to redirect the output to a logfile.
I know there is the command call cmd > logfile.txt, or to do it in the file echo 'xy' > logfil...
In Unix shell, I have a env file (env file defines the parameters required for running the user script like log file name and path, redirect outputs and errors to log file, database connection deta...
How can I make a log file from my bash script?
I'm leaving the script without the options, all I want to know is how I can register the script being used and make a separate .log file.
Script:
#!/bin/
How to create a .log file sequence with a shell script?
I need some help, I need to create a sequence of files. Ex. 1.log 2.log 3.log 4.log and so on, detail I need to define the initial value and the final value there it creates for me inside the desired
i want to implement a shell-script that runs the command xyz and stores its output in a variable, but at the same time forwarding the commands output to the shell-scripts stdout.
This is because I...
Handling logs of bash script and comments in text file
I am trying to read a text file which has few commented starts with '#', my bash script should read the lines of the text file which doesn't start with '#'.
Also im trying to capture the output of...
How to create status logs for shell script in Linux/bash
I have a shell script. To this script I am passing arguments from a file. This file contains tables names
The script is working fine. I am able execute the command for all the tables in the file.
...
I need to log all outputs / error logs from a shell script into a file with a standard format.
For example for file script.sh:
echo "I want to be a json message!"
echo "I also want t...
How do I manage log verbosity inside a shell script?
I have a pretty long bash script that invokes quite a few external commands (git clone, wget, apt-get and others) that print a lot of stuff to the standard output.
I want the script to have a few
THE ISSUE
I am struggling to adapt a logging function I've written and reused for years across many scripts to honor logging levels.
In short, I would like to use a single global variable to prin...
A collection of terminal color scripts I've accumulated over the years. These scripts are used in one of my Openbox pipemenus (found in my dotfiles repo).
Some time ago, I saw a Mono application with colored output, presumably because of its log system (because all the messages were standardized).
Now, Python has the logging module, which lets you