Snippet to redirect stderr and stdout to a file for a script

clean-logfiles.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

find /tmp -maxdepth 1 -type f -uid $(id -u) -name "*err*.log" -delete

list-logfiles.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

find /tmp -maxdepth 1 -type f -uid $(id -u) -name "*err*.log" | sort

redirect-io

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# see http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/x17974.html

log_name="${log_name:-$(basename ${0%.*})}"
log_file="$(mktemp -u -t ${log_name:-script}-err-XXXXXXXXXX --suffix=.log)"
exec 2> ${log_file}
echo "Redirecting errors to ${log_file}"