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Denys
Denys

Reputation: 4557

Bash commands run in sequence

The problem:

Number of the commands must be executed consequently, written in one-line command:

comamand1; command2; command3;

The very first command is 

 sw user_name;

The problem is that no commands are executed after the sw user_name; one. (the user gets changed though)

Any ideas about how i can execute the string of the commands described above? enter image description here

P.S.

bash-3.2$ sw
Sorry, user ehwe is not allowed to execute '/bin/su -' as root on server_name

Guess it explains what the sw is :)

P.P.S sw stands for /bin/su -

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2360

Answers (3)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 530970

You cannot change the user of a given process; you can only start a new process running as the new user. As such, sw is probably starting a new interactive shell. When that shell exits, the sw command completes, and the next command in your sequence can complete. For example:

$ sw user_name; echo "Second command executes"
$ echo hello
hello
$ exit
Second command executes

Upvotes: 0

RKG
RKG

Reputation: 150

It sounds to me like sw might be some sort of alias to su. You can check with alias sw. If this is the case, you could probably use chidori's answer, just replace su with sw.

Upvotes: 0

chidori
chidori

Reputation: 1112

Hoping that you meant "su" and not "sw" . If you wanted to switch as some user and execute set of commands probably you can use -c option. you can try something like this su - chidori -c "date;ls;df"

Upvotes: 5

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