sailfish-logger4sh

sailfish-logger4sh is a lightweight library used to simplify log generation in shell scripts.

Configuration

Default Values

LOG_PATH="."
LOG_FILE="logfile.log"
LOG_LEVEL=INFO
LOG_DATE_FORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
LOG_MESSAGE_FORMAT="[ %-19s ] - [ %-5s ] - %s\n"

LOG_LEVEL

FATAL
ERROR
WARN
INFO
DEBUG
TRACE

Loading logger4sh

You can load the logger4sh by calling the source file from your script

source logger4sh
# or 
. logger4sh

Using logger4sh functions

log_fatal "Your Fatal message here"
log_error "Your Error message here"
log_warn "Your Warning message here"
log_info "Your Info message here"
log_debug "Your Debug message here"
log_trace "Your Trace message here"

Customization

Once you load logger4sh by calling the source file from your script,
it will be initialized to the default configuration, which is specified above.

If you want to override the default configurations.
Say you want to change the LOG_LEVEL to INFO

# Load the source file
source logger4sh

# Customize the logger
LOG_LEVEL=INFO

# Initialize the logger with new configuration
init_logger

Happy Logging :-) © 2012 Nischith B.M.