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Created July 29, 2013 06:10
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tee stdout to log inside bash script
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logged-bash-script-example.sh
#! /bin/bash
# concept from http://stackoverflow.com/a/3403786/267224
#############
# log to file
LOGFILE=/home/user/log/script.log
exec > >(tee -a $LOGFILE)
exec 2>&1
############
# anything that outputs to stdout or stderr...
# don't need to pipe or tee the script itself, just run it and it pipes internally.
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