lc shell and command line

[Mike Bonner]

you can use a semicolon as command delimiter.

So you could do shell("command 1; command 2; command 3") and it would do
them in succession.
However rather than su to root its a much better idea to use sudo.

Beyond that, it might be easier to use open process so that you can open a
persistant connection to a shell. Something like : 'open process
"/bin/bash" for update'. Haven't done it, so you'd have to determine the
steps require to get your job done.  It would allow you to send send
passwords and run scripts in a persistent environment this way.

as for using cd in a shell() call, its much easier to just set the
defaultfolder then any following shells will execute from the context you
set.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Peter Alcibiades <
palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Bernard, many thanks, yes, that works.  Can I ask one more question, how
> then
> would you get the shell to interact, like if you do su and want to get the
> password in, and then run a script that requires root password?  Or maybe
> all that has to be done in shell?
>
> Peter
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