Logging while monitoring a shell script

You may be familiar with redirecting the output of your shell script to a file using exec

However, what do you do if you want monitor the output while logging at the same time? I just figured this out (probably again, since I tend to forget things… which is why I’m blogging this).

WARNING: This is bash-specific. While I prefer ZSH for my personal shell, I generally code in bash because it is everywhere.

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