Bash script executting su command

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I am new to bash. I need to write the script which executes the following commands consecutively su - bbt; id

and to see the result. I have tried to put this line into the tmp.sh and then run it. I just see the results of the first command su - bbt. I don't see the results for the id command.

Barun · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-29 11:24:52Z

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Try this:

su -c 'bbt; id'

answered Jul 29, 2009 at 11:24

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William Pursell Over a year ago

Did you mean: sh -c 'su - bbt; id'?

TheBonsai Over a year ago

su -c will relay to sh -c (in the new session)

Barun Over a year ago

I got your question wrongly. You want to change the user as 'bbt' and then run the command 'id', right? Then you should try as: su - bbt -c 'id'

Barun Over a year ago

The command I wrote in my initial comment would work differently. It would execute the commands 'bbt' and 'id' sequentially with root privileges.

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