[SOLVED] capture error messages in bash script and write to logfile

Tombar · 10-27-2020, 01:28 AM

Hi,

I am executing the following command in a bash script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

rclone move "${backupdir}/${fileNameBackupDbGPG}" onedrive:backup

As an error message I get the following on the console:

Code:

2020/10/27 07:21:37 Failed to create file system for "onedrive:backup": failed to get root: Get "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/2d                                                      1100dc776d3149/root": x509: certificate is valid for osmc, not graph.microsoft.com

But now I want to send this error to a logfile. I tried the following:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

function backup_log {
 echo "$(date -Iseconds) $1" >> $logfile

VAR=$(rclone move "${backupdir}/${fileNameBackupDbGPG}" onedrive:backup 2>&1)
backup_log $VAR
}

But this does only partly work. I only get the first part of the error. Everything after the date (separated by space) is not captured

Code:

2020-10-27T07:20:20+01:00 2020/10/27

How can I modify the statement to get the full error string?

Thanks a lot.
Tombar

pan64 · 10-27-2020, 02:59 AM

use $* instead of $1
but you can redirect the output of rclone into the log file, do not need to use any variable.

Tombar · 10-27-2020, 03:26 AM

Thanks a lot. Yes this is working. I looked at the wrong part of the script. I always tested around the line where I execute the command but missed that the problem actually was with the function that writes the logfile.

pan64 · 10-27-2020, 03:58 AM

you are welcome
please mark the thread solved if you think your problem is solved.