Full redirect to a log file but remove, on the fly, some text from log-CodePudding

I'm having this code in bash

function main() {
  code here
  echo "data is here"
  code here
  echo "new data is here"
  echo "sensitive data"
  code here
  echo "another data here"
}

main |& tee -a logFile

The problem is that I want to remove [ or not to send if possible ] the "sensitive data" from the log

I tried with sed but if I'll change the logFile on the fly, the new data will not be appended anymore

Any ideas?

CodePudding user response：

The easiest way would be to modify your main function and write the sensible data directly to the terminal:

function main() {
    # ...
    echo "sensitive data" > /dev/tty
    # ...
}

An other possibility would be to insert an awk script in the pipe, in between main and tee, for "redirecting" the sensible lines to /dev/stderr or /dev/tty:

main |& awk '/sensible data/ { print > "/dev/tty"; next } 1' | tee -a logFile

^{edit: added quotes to /dev/tty for making it work with other awks that the GNU one.}