[nflug] ubuntu sudo script

[Mark T. Valites]

You can also put the entire loop into a subshell that you hand off to sudo 
as well:

$ sudo sh -c 'for i in `find -name *wine*`; do sudo rm -f $i; done'

Watch your shell quoting when you start doing these things.


However, for what you're doing, find has the possibility of finding files 
& directories with spaces in them & handing them off to rm as separate 
things to remove - ie. if 'find' finds a file named 'wine install 
notes.txt', rm will try to remove three files - 'wine', 'install' & 
'notes.txt' and not the file you're after.

Your best bet in this case is to use the '-exec' arg to find, which also 
just happens to eliminate the original sudo loop problem:

$ sudo find -name '*wine*' -exec rm -f {} \;

-Mark

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:

> for i in `find -name *wine*`; do sudo rm -f $i; done
>
> Thus spake anthonyriga:
>
>> How do you run script commands in bash shell using sudo? I was trying 
>> to delete some wine files and I get this error here is the command:
>> 
>> sudo for i in `find -name *wine*`; do rm -f $i; done
>> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do
>> 
>> If I take out sudo I get permission denied. How do you
>> run scripts overiding sudo? I like the security aspect
>> of sudo but sometimes it gets to be a pain. Suggestions?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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