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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system, uk.comp.sys.mac |
| Subject | Re: Migrating to new machine |
| Date | 2015-03-20 13:14 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <cn2kq8Fg7j0U3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2015-03-20, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote: > On 2015-03-19, Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> wrote: > >> Why wouldn't you want to sudo? > > When you want to string a load of commands together, although that's > not the case here. > > A simple example I recently encountered on Linux: > > sudo rsync ... # backup entire system > > I changed that to: > > sudo time rsync ... # I want to see how long it takes > > here the sudo applies to the time command not the rsync, so the rsync > throws errors when it tries to access files which need root access. > > For this example, it's simply a matter of putting the 'time' command > first. > > time sudo rsync ... > > Other cases don't have such an easy workaround. Why not just run the commands in a shell?: sudo sh -c 'time whoami' Works fine for me. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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Migrating to new machine John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-03-19 06:52 -0700
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-03-19 16:37 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-19 16:41 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-03-19 20:09 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> - 2015-03-19 16:28 -0400
Re: Migrating to new machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-03-19 20:45 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-19 17:32 -0400
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 13:07 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-20 11:53 -0400
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 16:27 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-20 13:23 -0400
Re: Migrating to new machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-20 19:23 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-03-20 07:56 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-20 11:20 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 13:14 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-20 19:25 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-19 20:39 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2015-03-19 21:23 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2015-03-19 21:25 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-03-20 09:32 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-20 11:22 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-03-20 13:10 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 13:21 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-20 19:19 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-03-21 11:10 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 13:18 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-03-21 14:40 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 13:43 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-03-21 17:33 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 13:18 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-20 10:10 -0400
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 14:32 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-20 11:35 -0400
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-20 12:30 -0400
Re: Migrating to new machine me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-03-19 16:33 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-19 16:40 +0000
Re: Migrating to new machine nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2015-03-22 10:46 +0100
Re: Migrating to new machine John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-03-22 13:45 -0700
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