[Linuxcommand-discuss] question about redirection

[Bram M. <bra...@li...>]

Hi

I would like to use the following script to start evolution from now on
so the output would be logged.

Can I replace the "/data/logs/evolution.log" with a variable?  Right now
it looks quite ugly and reusing the script for other apps would involve
too much typing/a high risk of typos/not enough laziness :)

--- script ---
#!/bin/bash

echo "" >> /data/logs/evolution.log
echo "--- $(date +"%R %A, %B %-d, %Y") ---" >> /data/logs/evolution.log
evolution >> /data/logs/evolution.log 2>&1
---  end   ---
Can I replace it with something like:
--- script ---
#!/bin/bash

logfile="/data/logs/evolution.log"

echo "" >> $logfile
echo "--- $(date +"%R %A, %B %-d, %Y") ---" >> $logfile
evolution >> $logfile 2>&1
---  end   ---

TIA
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