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How can I use su in a shell script?

echo "Please enter the root password below."
su
echo "Thank you."

Desired output:
me@pc:~$ bash file
Please enter the root...

That's it! Thank you!

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It has been a long time since my last post, but finally I've got a new question:

I know in case you can use multiple patterns by
case $var in
a|b|c|ab)
and so on.

But how...

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1.23456789

This an example number. It can be any number. I want grep to only find the digits behind the "."
That means
23456789

should be the output in this case.
...

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man apt-get

will give you all the information needed.

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Yet another problem:

var=1.5
bc $var + 3.2

results in

File 1.5 is unavailable

So I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what.

intelinside

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How can I set the DE to KDE on a fresh, netinst image of Debian Stable?

By default, it installs GNOME. Is there a way to change that?

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Is there a command that can check how long a user-entered string is?

Please don't give me a code, just the name of the command (playing around yourself is much more fun than...

Yeah, that's it.

Thank you :b:

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How can I make a Space after a read prompt? let's assume:

read -p "Are you good?:" varthe output would be ( | is the cursor ):
Are you good?:|But I want it to be:

Are...

Ah, so using -F avoids interpreting * as a wildcard?

That means it would threat everything as a normal letter instead of using special functions like *.

Did I get it?

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I have a simple question:

I cannot see any difference between
grep [expression] [file]

and

grep -F [expression] [file]

The help says that "PATTERN is a set of...

Thank you. But can you tell me what's wrong with my code. I'd be really interested in that.

Edit: Solved. Looked closer to radoulov's syntax. You're my hero :)

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My problem:
read -p "Enter any number, please" number
sleep 1
echo $number | tr -d 0-9
test -z $number && echo "Thank you" || echo "This is not a number"Test always...

Okay, I read some man pages about the
tr -dcommand you use in your script and I think it is
is exactly what I need. Thank you!

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Normally, I would hide error messages in a shell script with

command 2> path

but test also prints out errors if I do that.

The code of the script is (please don't tell...