su -c command --- can you exec 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"

 

[marsd]

Try writing a function file(library) with all your functions in it and sourcing it: thats how they do it in C.;-)

#!/bin/ksh
. /myfunctionspathhere/
su -c file_remove $ORACLE,etc..

Also is your syntax right?
In the bourne shell:
file_remove() {
code
}

Otherwise I think tcl/expect or perl would be very good for this, maybe more code but more
flexibility too...