On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:20, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Hi, > Sometimes while being a user you need to do a command that only su can do. > While stdying su it seems there is a way to do this. I have problems to make > some work. > > su -c gedit root foo > opens gedit in su mode not as foo but as untitled - you can save it as > foo. > > su -c ./foo root > This runs the script. > > su -c cp root foo foo1 > this does not work - complains and needs more than I can provide - do not > know what. > > su -c shutdown root -r now > Does not work - complains -r wrong option. > > now su command construction something like this... > su [option] [-] [user] [ARG] > > It would be really nice to do complex commands. > Please what am I missing > Thanks > Johan > > May this be a good day for learning
Try: su -c 'your command within quotes' Adolfo
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