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#!/bin/sh

### Logging everything written to standard/standard error to a
### log file in sh and ksh.
###
### This is how to send all output from any program or echo executed
### by a script to a file for logging purposes.
###

# Sends standard out and standard error to a log
now=`date '+%d%m%y-%H:%M'`
exec 1>/var/tmp/log.${now} 2>&1

# Do whatever and the output will be logged to the logfile above
echo "This is logging to the output file"
echo ""
echo ""

### Example of outputting a command
echo "Disk sizes:"
/bin/df -kl

### Exit
exit 0

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