Easy logging for any bash script

logging-test.bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# A handy way to redirect script output to syslog
# Way more granular then adding a bunch of `/usr/bin/logger` stanzas

# Thanks to http://urbanautomaton.com/blog/2014/09/09/redirecting-bash-script-output-to-syslog/ &
# Eric at https://twitter.com/lindvall/status/509054237267853312

echo "writing to stdout, before the I/O redirection"

# Prints to the screen and to syslog
exec 1> >(/usr/bin/logger -s -t $(basename $0)) 2>&1

echo "writing to stdout"
echo "writing to stderr" >&2

# Prints to syslog, but not to the screen
exec 1> >(/usr/bin/logger -t $(basename $0)) 2>&1

echo "writing to stdout, not to the screen"
echo "writing to stderr, not to the screen" >&2