Logfiles

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

I have a peculiar problem. I will call a script from another script.
Script abc.ksh is called by ABC.ksh as

ABC.ksh abc.ksh

in abc.ksh I will create and redirect all the statements to log file.
ABC.ksh will also has a log file. I want all the logs generated in file abc in ABC too.
The log file generated in abc.ksh does not have particular name format to redirect me to ABC.ksh file.

Any help is appriciated.

Thanks
:slight_smile:

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If anyone didn't understand anything, please let me know.

Thanks

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First redirect STDOUT/STDERR in the ABC.ksh script:

exec > ABC.log 2>&1

Then inside the ABC.ksh script invoke the abc.ksh script like this:

abc.ksh 2>&1 | tee -a ABC.log  abc.log

You'll end up with something like this:

ABC.ksh

exec > ABC.log 2>&1 

abc.ksh 2>&1 | tee -a ABC.log  abc.log
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i am bit confused!!!
you want to redirect all the statements of abc.ksh and ABC.ksh to a single log file???

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let me explain my problem with example

abc.ksh

echo 'Hi' > ab_log.log
echo 'i will run some commands' >>ab_log.log
echo 'Will do some manipuations >> ab_log.log
echo 'end' >>ab_log.log

ABC.ksh (abc is passed as parameter)

echo "Running the script $1" >ABC_log.log
. $1.ksh >> ABC_log.log
echo 'End ' >> ABC_log.log

Now the log generated by abc.ksh, i want the log in ABC_log.log
Here I have hard coded the file names, if they r generic then ?

Could anyone suggest a good logic.

Thanks in advance.

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Yes,
see my post above.