This works for me:

sudo sh -c "whoami;whoami"



On Oct 25, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Kelly Jones wrote:

How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the
semicolon ends the whole sudo command:

sudo whoami; whoami
root
user

This confuses tcsh:

monica:~> sudo ( whoami ; whoami )
Badly placed ()'s.

I could obviously write a shell script or something or do:

sudo whoami; sudo whoami

but is there a better way?

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