I was trying to add some documentation packages today, and kept getting
annoyed that it would not let me - I was not root. I decided that it
should know that I was the admin, and let me do it anyway.
This is what I came up with:
$HOME/bin/aptitude
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#!/bin/sh
PROGRAM=/usr/bin/aptitude
SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo
NEED_ROOT=255
$PROGRAM ${1:-"$@"}
if [ $? -eq $NEED_ROOT ]
then
exec $SUDO $PROGRAM ${1:-"$@"}
fi
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This can be expanded to other programs:
$HOME/bin/apt-get
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#!/bin/sh
PROGRAM=/usr/bin/aptitude
SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo
NEED_ROOT=255
$PROGRAM ${1:-"$@"}
if [ $? -eq $NEED_ROOT ]
then
exec $SUDO $PROGRAM ${1:-"$@"}
fi
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or
$HOME/bin/yum
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#!/bin/sh
PROGRAM=/usr/bin/yum
SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo
NEED_ROOT=1
$PROGRAM ${1:-"$@"}
if [ $? -eq $NEED_ROOT ]
then
exec $SUDO $PROGRAM ${1:-"$@"}
fi
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(for yum, a $? of 1 means any sort of error, so a mistyped sub-command
will cause yum to run twice, with the same result)
Enjoy!
-john
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