If you understand how UNIX works, this is quite sensible. See how the ISPF interface to USS works.
- -teD - Original Message From: Alan Young Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 12:13 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: BPXBATCH "SH ...; su; pax ..." does not do what you think it does Peter Hunkeler wrote: > > > To run commands in a "su" shell environment, you have to write all the > commands into a UNIX file first, and then call "su" by redirecting stdin to > that UNIX file. > > > echo "id" > /tmp/sucommandfile > su < /tmp/sucommandfile > > The manual has examples of executing commands via su without redirection like this: To run the /usr/lib/backupall script under the admin user ID and return to the parent shell environment when the script completes: |su admin /usr/lib/backupall| To run a remove shell command under the admin user ID and return to the parent shell environment when the command completes: |su admin -c "rm -rf /tmp/" | Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
