[sclug] sudo / su

[Jacqui Caren]

Spencer Collyer wrote:
> This should run the command in a subshell.

from man sudo on my gateway

         % sudo sh -c "cd /home ; du -s * | sort -rn > USAGE"


The trick is to avoid anything that allows the current shell to glob
or to handle redirects (input and output *if* that is what you
want.

Note the sh (change to bash) used to ensure >, pipe and '*' is globbed.

Jacqui

p.s. I would have changed the ';' to && - this way the du is not
executed unless the cd works.

Also I would fully specify the path to du  and sort
if this si a script.