lc shell and command line

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Fri Nov 18 12:48:48 EST 2011


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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