I feel like I'm spamming these comments with this, but check out https://bash3boilerplate.sh/ https://bash3boilerplate.sh/ for a much better logging system alon

I feel like I'm spamming these comments with this, but check out https://bash3boilerplate.sh/ https://bash3boilerplate.sh/ for a much better logging system along with a neat way of parsing options. You define the usage and help section like so to define your options: ### Usage and help - change this for each script ############################################################################## # shellcheck disable=SC2015 [[ "${__usage+x}" ]] || read -r -d '' __usage <<-'EOF' || true # exits non-zero when EOF encountered -t --timestamps Enable timestamps in output -v --verbose Enable verbose mode, print script as it is executed -d --debug Enables debug mode -h --help This page -n --no-color Disable color output EOF Then you get to refer to ${arg_t} for the --timestamps option etc.