On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> > Dear mantainer,
>
> Not the maintainer but another list denizen.
>
> > Running
> > su -c echo davide -norc
> > with su (in sh-utils 2.0) under linux I receive the following
> >
> > su: invalid option -- n
> > Try `su --help' for more information.
> >
> > is this correct?
> > Reading the usage it seemed (to me) that the -norc option went to the
> > shell, instead here it is parsed by getopt.
>
> The -c option takes a single argument. Here you have given it more
> than that. You should quote the -c argument so that it is all
> recieved as one option.
>
> su -c 'echo davide -norc'
no, echo is the only argument of the -c option; -norc is a shell argument
for bash; so the parsing I would expect is:
su
-c echo (command)
davide (user)
-norc (shell args)
> Bob
Thanks,
Davide
