Standard out/Error out

[Tim2525]

Hi All,

My apologies for the VERY simple qs. Want to send echo messages to a log file. Is my code right? Can this be done with printf function? Currently what is happening is the message appears on my screen with the path following it and backup.log file not created.

Message that appears on screen:
Forcing any existing sampleDB applications offline... /db2_backup/backup.log

Code:

logFilePath=/db2_backup/backup.log

echo '\n' "Forcing any existing ${dbName} applications offline... " 2>&1 $logFilePath


TIA,
T

 

[Tim2525]

Sorry all - I'm use ksh.

 

[rbod]

First you need to make sure that the directory and the file exist.

logFilePath=/db2_backup
if [ -d ${logFilePath} ]
then
continue
else
mkdir ${logFilePath}

logFile=${logFilePath}/backup.log
export logFile
# Create logfile if it does not exist
if [ -f ${logFile} ]
then
continue
else
touch ${logFile}
fi

echo '\n' "Forcing any existing ${dbName} applications offline... " >> ${logFilePath}


Look into other options like "tee" .

 

[Tim2525]

Thanks much rbod for the information.