Write to custom log file from a Bash script

Question

In Linux, I know how to write a simply message to the /var/log/messages file, in a simple shell script I created:

#!/bin/bash
logger \"have fun!\"
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Answer 1

If you see the man page of logger:

$ man logger

LOGGER(1) BSD General Commands Manual LOGGER(1)

NAME logger — a shell command interface to the syslog(3) system log module

SYNOPSIS logger [-isd] [-f file] [-p pri] [-t tag] [-u socket] [message ...]

DESCRIPTION Logger makes entries in the system log. It provides a shell command interface to the syslog(3) system log module.

It Clearly says that it will log to system log. If you want to log to file, you can use ">>" to redirect to log file.