ski@mybox:~/mysrc/skix$ cat launcher #!/bin/sh echo launching worker... /usr/local/bin/worker >>/var/log/worker.log 2>&1 worker is an ugly and complicated piece of code. what i'm looking for is a way to make the worker a bit uglier so i can just exec it directly and get rid of this "launcher" script, which is just a silly little wrapper. ie something like: #!/bin/sh echo launching worker... #some magic command that redirects stderr and stdout to /var/log/worker.log for all the below #and now the arbitrary long contents of the "worker" script