lc shell and command line

[Andre Garzia]

Roger,

Good finding. I gave the same comment as before lol... it appears that this
solution works, I haven't tested it.

Cheers
andre

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, you can't ask for the user password and pass it to a
> > shell call with clever use of pipes. That is not how sudo works, you
> can't:
> >
> >  cat password.txt | sudo cd ..   or   sudo cd .. < password.txt
> >
> >
> How about this method?
>
> shell("pw=" & tPassword & "; echo $pw | sudo -S command")
>
> SOURCE:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@lists.runrev.com/msg137100.html
>
> ~Roger
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