Try, try again

[Rodney Tamblyn]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 07:31 AM, Yennie at aol.com wrote:

> If you don't mind the password being briefly sent in the clear (as 
> part of the name of the process), you can use this:
>
> get shell("echo '"&pwd&"' | sudo"&&cmd)
>
> Which comes out to something that looks like:
> echo 'MyPassword' | sudo MyCommand

'pwd' puts the working directory ie the directory you are currently 
working in for operations like file listing. copying etc...

R.
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