I want to do these commands in a script:
if the user name is 'toto' then the user switch to the group toto_group and then 2 others scripts are launched.
Unfortunately, after the command 'newgrp' the 2 scripts are not launched correctly.
But if I do the same, by hand, one line per one line, it works!! Why ?? I work on with a SUNOS5.7

Thanks for your help !

I am not getting your problem, it would be nice if you can post your code here

Regards
JK

Yes, my code is:

#! /bin/csh

set PATH_CPT = `pwd`;
set PRJ = '/home/myproject/'
echo "Changement de groupe UNIX touareg"
newgrp my_project &
## creation of the ANABE_CFG directory
if !( -d $PATH_CPT/ANABE_CFG ) then
mkdir $PATH_CPT/ANABE_CFG
cd $PATH_CPT/ANABE_CFG
mkdir CALIBRE
mkdir PROJECT
else echo " $PATH_CPT/ANABE_CFG directory already exists "
endif

stconf

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The newgrp command fires up a subshell. When you run it by hand, the subshell reads the next commands. You are running newgrp in a script. The script continues to read the commands while the subshell does nothing.


You don't need newgrp anymore. It was needed when you could only be in one group at a time. Now you can be in many at a time. Type "groups" to see your list.

newgrp has been obsolete for over a decade. But this is the second question on newgrp in the past few weeks.

There's a good reason for that. Guess the OP didn't catch it the first time you said this command is obsolete.

newgrp command