Shell Logging

[Maarten Litmaath]

selig at udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Paul D. Selig) writes:
\I need to have a way that will take a shell script that is written by a
\student and run that script, while at the same time writing all input
\(either from the keyboard or a file), output, and error output to a "log"
\file, while at the same time accepting input from the keyboard and writing
\the output to the screen.  [...]

/usr/ucb/script would do what you want.
If you only want to log error messages, you can use the following script.
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#!/bin/sh
# @(#)log 1.1 89/06/10 Maarten Litmaath
# log - save error messages in a logfile, duplicate them on stderr

test $# -lt 2 && {
	echo "Usage: `basename $0` <error logfile> <command>" >&2
	exit 1
}

ERRLOG=$1
shift

exec 3>&1
"$@" 2>&1 >&3 3>&- | tee -a "$ERRLOG" >&2
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