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Old 11-26-2007
varungupta varungupta is offline
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Originally Posted by sachin.tendulka View Post
cameron,

I have used "su" to sudo an account ramdev2, now i need to read a file "ram.inc" in a folder /ramenv ,parse it and get only the port no. in it and store it in a .txt file and return it. Since i am pretty much new in reading the file and storing it in a .txt pls. do provide me with an example. Expecting postive response..

Thanx,
Sachin
hey,

su is used to switch user account.
For ex:
By default you logged in into default user, but whn you want to switch the user (say your account ) then you can use "su" command,

su - xyz
password: *******