script to execute commands for all the users on ubuntu server

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I am running a script through root which will do login to all the registered users and will execute few commands(example: list down all the folders in users directory), collect their reports and copy it in root login.

My command looks like this

for i in `cat userlist`; do echo $i; su $i ; ls ; exit; done > folderList

The problem with this command is after doing a su to user it changes the shell and the script waits till it receives a exit from that shell

Deleted User · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-11 08:30:25Z

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try:

su - $user -c whoami

for executing a command as user in a subshell, which is terminated automatically when program ends.

answered Jun 11, 2014 at 8:30

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