[kwlug-disc] Capturing output in scripts

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

For years I have been using the following technique to capture output
(stdout and stderr), for emailing the results.

(
command
command
if [ ....
  command
else
  command
fi
...
) 2>&1 > /tmp/logfile

Basically, the () is a subshell, and its output is captured.

Then the logfile can be kept or sent via email from the same script, often
conditionally if there are errors e.g.:

mail -s "script output" me at example.com < /tmp/logfile

The only thing that is annoying is that vim syntax highlighting gets thrown
off for the stuff in between the ().

Anyone knows of a way around this? Either alternates to capturing output

I thought about the script command:

script -c myscript /tmp/logfile

But then I have to break every script into two files, one a wrapper that
runs the real script and emails its output and the script proper itself.
Also, it annoyingly captures everything like terminal escape codes and such.

Another approach is to fix vim syntax highlight, but I don't know how.

Any ideas?
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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