How Do You Create a Log File in Unix Shell Script?

How Do You Create a Log File in Unix Shell Script?
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How do you write a log file in Unix shell script?

To write output of Bash Command to Log File, you may use right angle bracket symbol (>) or double right angle symbol (>>). Right angle braketsymbol (>) : is used to write output of a bash command to a disk file. If the file is not already present, it creates one with the name specified.

How do I create a log file in Linux?

Create a log entry

  1. To log the content of a file, use the -f option:
  2. By default, logger includes its name in the log file as the tag. To change the tag, use the -t TAG option:
  3. To echo the message to standard error (the screen), as well as to /var/log/messages, use the -s option:
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