[nflug] ubuntu sudo script

[anthonyriga]

--- "Mark T. Valites" <mark-nflug at valites.net> wrote:

> 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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