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From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SU -c switch
Date: 07 Nov 1995 01:44:24 -0800
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In-reply-to: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk's message of 4 Nov 1995 11:01:28 -0000

In article <47fh68$8d@falstaf.demon.co.uk> robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch) writes:

$ I am running FreeBSD 2.0 and this doesn't appear to do this.  If I enter
$ such a string all I get is the sh prompt and I hae to mannually enter
$ the command.

it doesn't on freebsd 2.0.  it does in freebsd-current (and probably in
2.1).

what you can do instead is

echo "command" | su -m toor