logscript.sh

#!/bin/bash

###   Script Configuration Section

#IFS=$'\n'                                   #this is necessary to deal with spaces in filepath. (found a better way to do this so I commented it out to be safe)
source `dirname "$0"`/bash_logging.config    #this sets the path for the config file, which should be nested next to the script

###   Log Configuration Section
##    This is where you select the log directory. Uncomment the one you want. Uncomment the line you want to use.

logDir=`pwd` # The log will be created at the working directory
#logDir='/tmp' # The log will be created in the temporary directory
#logDir="ENTER YOUR OWN PATH HERE" # The log will be created at an arbitrary location

##    This is where you name the log. Uncomment the line you want to use.

logName='log'  # The script will be named log.log
#logName=`basename "$0"`  #the log will be named after the name of the script
#logName=`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`  #the log will be named after the Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
#logName='ENTER YOUR OWN NAME HERE'  #the log will be named anything you want

logName+='.log'
logPath="$logDir/$logName"

##    More log setup options

#logOut  # Uncomment this line to pipe all of the output of the script to the logs

###   Log Implementation Section
##    The following commands create and open the log

logCreate $logPath
logOpen

##    The following commands add lines to the log

logNewLine "Text on a new line in the log goes here"
logCurrentLine "......Text added to the last line goes here"
logLog sleep 5 #this command will log how long it takes to run a command. This example simply tells bash to pause for 5 seconds
logNewLine "This script is over now!\n\n"   #since we use echo -e to write to the log we can use \n to add some newline at the end of the log after this script runs