Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] question about redirection

[William S. <bs...@pa...>]

Yes, by all means you would want to use a variable instead.  It would make
your script easier to maintain.  I would suggest that in keeping with
convention, the name of the variable should have an uppercase name since
it you are treating the variable as a constant.


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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Bram Mertens wrote:

> 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   ---