Armin K. wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 06:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> Sorry for the delay, I've missed the reply somehow.
>
>>
>> Well what we have now is wrong and what we had before is also wrong.
>> The above is right, but may not be elegant. It is, however, somewhat
>> educational.
>>
>> It could be collapsed to two physical lines:
>>
>> as_root() { if [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
>> else su -c \\"$*\\"; fi }
>>
>> We only need to change the entity and then the $AS_ROOT to as_root in
>> the 4 places needed.
> From what I see, your command would attempt to use either sudo or su
> even if ran as root user. Maybe some kind of "am I root?" checking
> should be done there before trying to check for sudo or execute su if
> sudo is not present.
as_root()
{
if [ $EUID = 0 ]; then $*
elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
else su -c \\"$*\\"
fi
}
export -f as_root
The spacing may be slightly overdone.
-- Bruce
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