sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

2008-10-25 Thread Kelly Jones
How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: sudo whoami; whoami root user This confuses tcsh: monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami ) Badly placed ()'s. I could obviously write a shell script or something or do: sudo whoami; sudo

Re: sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

2008-10-25 Thread perryh
How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: sudo whoami; whoami root user This confuses tcsh: monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami ) Badly placed ()'s. Supposing sudo spawns a shell, something like ~ sudo whoami \; whoami

Re: sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

2008-10-25 Thread Tom Marchand
This works for me: sudo sh -c whoami;whoami On Oct 25, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Kelly Jones wrote: How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the semicolon ends the whole sudo command: sudo whoami; whoami root user This confuses tcsh: monica:~ sudo ( whoami ; whoami )