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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Switching user inside a shell script doesn't seem to work Post 302894091 by chacko193 on Monday 24th of March 2014 02:58:19 AM
Old 03-24-2014
Try this sample code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
su -l guest -c "export a=$1;export b=$2;echo \`whoami\`>/tmp/me;echo \$a >/tmp/a;echo \$b>/tmp/b"
echo Now I am
whoami
echo -----------
echo Contentes of file me
cat me
echo -----------
echo Contentes of file a
cat a
echo -----------
echo Contents of file b
cat b

And this is the output I am getting:
Code:
./test.sh 1 2
Now I am
root
-----------
Contentes of file me
guest
-----------
Contentes of file a
1
-----------
Contents of file b
2

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

echo

echo(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    echo(3XCURSES)

NAME

       echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include  -L	/usr/xpg4/lib 
	-R  /usr/xpg4/lib  -lcurses  [ library... ]

       c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]

       #include <curses.h>

       int echo(void);

       int noecho(void);

DESCRIPTION

       The  echo()  function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
       curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control  soft-
       ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.

ERRORS

       No errors are defined.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    5 Jun 2002							    echo(3XCURSES)
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