diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 0fc158d3..2dac1d86 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Changelog
 - Validate simulation state after runSerial|ParallelSolver, see https://github.com/hpsim/OBR/pull/168
 - Improve obr submit, see https://github.com/hpsim/OBR/pull/170
 - Fix broken test badge, see https://github.com/hpsim/OBR/pull/178
+- Fix logfile location for shell commands, see https://github.com/hpsim/OBR/pull/184
 
 
 0.2.0 (2023-09-14)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7f854bfa..42b9e4ab 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "obr"
-version = "0.3.6"
+version = "0.3.7"
 description = "A tool to create and run OpenFOAM parameter studies"
 authors = [
     {name = "Gregor Olenik", email = "go@hpsim.de"},
diff --git a/src/obr/core/core.py b/src/obr/core/core.py
index 582453f5..852d42f8 100644
--- a/src/obr/core/core.py
+++ b/src/obr/core/core.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import os
 import subprocess
 import re
-import hashlib
 import logging
 import json
 
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ def key_to_path(sign_path: Union[str, Path]) -> str:
     return str(sign_path).replace(SIGNAC_PATH_TOKEN, PATH_TOKEN)
 
 
-def logged_execute(cmd, path, doc):
+def logged_execute(cmd, path, doc) -> Path:
     """execute cmd and logs success
 
     If cmd is a string, it will be interpreted as shell cmd
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ def logged_execute(cmd, path, doc):
         path to log file
     """
 
-    check_output(["mkdir", "-p", ".obr_store"], cwd=path)
     d = doc["history"]
     cmd_str = " ".join(cmd)
     cmd_str = path_to_key(cmd_str).split()  # replace dots in cmd_str with _dot_'s
@@ -60,7 +58,6 @@ def logged_execute(cmd, path, doc):
     else:
         flags = []
     cmd_str = cmd_str[0]
-    log_path = None
     try:
         ret = check_output(cmd, cwd=path, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).decode("utf-8")
         log = ret
@@ -86,11 +83,16 @@ def logged_execute(cmd, path, doc):
         state = "failure"
 
     timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S")
+    log_path = None
+
+    # Only write log files above a certain size
+    # otherwise the log is stored directly in the job doc
     if log and len(log) > 1000:
-        h = hashlib.new("md5")
-        h.update(log.encode())
-        h.hexdigest()
-        fn = f"{cmd_str}_{timestamp}.log"
+        # the cmd_str might contain / for example if
+        # shell scripts are called. Hence we sanitize
+        # the script name
+        cmd_str_san = key_to_path(cmd_str.split("/")[-1])
+        fn = f"{cmd_str_san}_{timestamp}.log"
         with open(path / fn, "w") as fh:
             fh.write(log)
         log = fn
@@ -262,7 +264,8 @@ def find_tags(path: Path, tags: list, tag_mapping):
                     yield f"{root}/{file}", campaign, tags
 
 
-def execute(steps: list[str], job) -> bool:
+def execute_shell(steps: list[str], job) -> bool:
+    """execute a list of shell commands on a job"""
     path = Path(job.path) / "case"
     if not steps:
         return False
@@ -278,8 +281,6 @@ def execute(steps: list[str], job) -> bool:
             continue
         steps_filt.append(step)
 
-    # steps_filt = map(lambda x: " ".join(x.split()), steps_filt)
-
     for step in steps_filt:
         if not step:
             continue
diff --git a/src/obr/signac_wrapper/operations.py b/src/obr/signac_wrapper/operations.py
index e8ad5e38..98638b62 100644
--- a/src/obr/signac_wrapper/operations.py
+++ b/src/obr/signac_wrapper/operations.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from .labels import owns_mesh, final, finished
-from ..core.core import execute
+from ..core.core import execute_shell
 from obr.OpenFOAM.case import OpenFOAMCase
 from obr.core.queries import filter_jobs, query_impl, Query
 
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ def shell(job: Job, args={}):
         steps = [f"{k} {v}".replace("_dot_", ".") for k, v in args.items()]
     else:
         steps = [args]
-    execute(steps, job)
+    execute_shell(steps, job)
 
 
 @generate