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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting export variable not working after su Post 302690959 by methyl on Thursday 23rd of August 2012 04:22:32 PM
Old 08-23-2012
Please post what Operating System and version you are running so we can work out what Shell /bin/sh is (unless you can tell us).

What @alister is saying is that the environment variables in the "Here Document" (the bit between <<EOF and EOF) are evaluated by the calling Shell BEFORE the su - runs.

I can't think of an Operating System where the script would work at all because su - should prompt for a password. ... Unless you are logged in as root ?

There are techniques to do what I think you want to do, but let's find out what you actually want the script to do? Are you running as root ?
 

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NAME
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The PDF Document Viewer application is based on xpdf. PDF Document Viewer provides viewing features such as panning, zoom in, zoom out, best fit, and fit width. OPTIONS
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Example 1: Launching the PDF Document Viewer example% gpdf Example 2: Opening the Document test.pdf in PDF Document Viewer example% gpdf test.pdf ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of gpdf: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
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