can the su command execute a function

[solvetek]

The su command changes user credentials to those of the root user or
to the user specified by the Name parameter, and then initiates a new
session.

su - oratest -c "command text"

is it possible for the "command text" to be an inline function instead
of a command or script? Here is my code. The error I get is "ksh:
file_remove: not found."


#!/bin/ksh
##sample code
function file_remove
{
cd $1
find . -name \*.trc -mtime +$2 -exec rm {} \;
}
su - oratest "-c file_remove $ORACLE_HOME/admin/bdump 60"

 

[MikeLacey]

I don't *think* so, an interesting idea though.

The problem I see with that (and I can't test it at the moment) is that su starts another shell and the function you've defined won't (I think) be visible to it.

There's an easy workaround though:

#!/bin/ksh
##sample code

print '
#!/bin/ksh
function file_remove
{
cd $1
find . -name \*.trc -mtime +$2 -exec rm {} \;
}
file_remove $ORACLE_HOME/admin/bdump 60
' > file_remove.ksh

su - oratest -c file_remove.ksh
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[solvetek]

Thanks,


I was just trying to avoid 2 scripts