Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 22:11 schrieb Rosenstrauch, David:
>Actually that code wouldn't work for someone who's using sudo:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo $UID
>1000
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo echo $UID
>1000
>
>DR
$UID gets evaluated by bash before sudo is called. So after the evaluation of
$UID the actual call is:
sudo echo 1000
More correct would be:
sudo bash -c 'echo $UID'
Cheers,
Bjoern
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