Chris Davies <chris-use...@roaima.co.uk> writes: [...]
>> What can I do to avoid this kind of silliness? What kind of >> environment variable would even tell sudo about bash builtins? > > There isn't one. You can't use bash builtins like that in any > command. Instead, you should consider a construct like this: > > sudo bash -c 'for ii in 1 2 3; do echo $ii; done' Ahh yes, I see. Tell sudo to use bash and a specific bash command. Thanks. Darac M's solution is similarly more direct. Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> writes: [...] >> > sudo for ii in 1 2 3;do echo $ii;done >> > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do' > > I suspect the problem here is, perhaps not that sudo doesn't know "do", > but rather that bash terminates your command at the semi-colon. > > Perhaps you should consider why you need to run a for loop as root? > > Consider the following: > for ii in 1 2 3; do sudo echo $ii; done > or > for ii in $(sudo seq 1 3); do echo $ii; done Ah yes, your debugging is much more exact. And the usage of sudo is a more straight forward formulation, just have sudo doing the least necessary. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739ewvmuq....@newsguy.com
