I routinely use an idiom like: echo 'progress -ezf $file $cmd $args ...'
often in a 'for' loop and pipe the series of commands to a root shell run with 'sudo sh -v'. For a while now, 'progress' "progress bar and statistics" has stopped displaying. It seems to have begun after some update to 10.0_BETA (and probably -current, although I don't usually run those commands on a -current system). I've checked various invocations and all work properly except piping to a shell run with 'sudo sh'. (Using "-v" is not material to the failure, just for feedback as to what command is being run.) The target userid doesn't matter either, just that "root" is what I usually need to be when running the command. Maybe something changed in 'sudo' as 'su root -v' works as expected. One could just as easily use 'sudo -u otheruser sh -v' and see the failure or 'su otheruser -v' and see success. Working example: $ gzip -c /etc/printcap > /tmp/printcap.gz $ echo "progress -ezf /tmp/printcap.gz cat > /tmp/printcap" | sh -v Non-working example: $ gzip -c /etc/printcap > /tmp/printcap.gz $ echo "progress -ezf /tmp/printcap.gz cat > /tmp/printcap" | sudo sh -v I haven't yet updated 'sudo' on my two remaining netbsd-9 systems, so I'll see how it behaves for comparison. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]consolidated[flyspeck]net OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645
