This fella simply appends the program name and date to a message sent to stdout.
I typically redirect stdout to a logfile for unattended operations.

print_msg()
{
        message=$1
        echo "${progname} : date : $message"
}

About troyski

I'm a freelance UNIX engineer working in the UK. I'm married to Tina and between us we have six children. I'm a bit of an Apple fan boy, and all the Windows machines in the house are a thing of the past now.

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