How do I manage log verbosity inside a shell script?

Question

I have a pretty long bash script that invokes quite a few external commands (git clone, wget, apt-get and others) that print a lot of

Answer 1

Solution 2.

Set $required_verbosity and pipe STDOUT of every statement in your script to a helper script with two parameters, something like this:

statement | logger actual_verbosity $required_verbosity

In a logger script echo STDIN to STDOUT (or log file, whatever) if $actual_verbosity >= $required_verbosity.