Shell Script

ijf99 · 01-26-2009, 06:49 AM

Hi folks,

(This may be the wrong forum, apologies if it is)

I'm writing a shell script where the user needs to be changed half-way through then some commands are run by this user. I can do this for one command (e.g. su - X -c "echo 'stuff'"), but doing this for more than one command is proving to be a problem - how would I do this?

Many thanks,
Ian

colucix · 01-26-2009, 07:15 AM

Have you tried to just separate multiple commands with semi-colon?

Code:

# su - username -c "echo 'stuff'; cd /path/to/dir; pwd; ls"

otherwise you can put all the commands into an executable script and run the script as a single command.