[PD] [shell] issue

Olivier Heinry olivier at heinry.fr
Mon Apr 28 14:12:31 CEST 2008


Le Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:13:10 +0200,
Thomas Mayer <thomas at dergrossebruder.org> a écrit :

> Olivier Heinry wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > I've got this command line that flushes the disk cache on Linux 2.6.16 and later that's very useful to clean big video files from RAM:
> > 
> > 	sudo sync; sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> >
> > Any of you has an idea how to give a [sudo cmd( message to the [shell] object and on-interactively give the sudo password?
> 
> 
> One way is to exclude these commands from needing the password via
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/02/msg00656.html
> 
> Another way is pipelining stdin:
> echo "YOURPASSWORD"|sudo sync; ...
> 
> or for some real shell programming and using a textfile for stdin:
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
> 
> cu Thomas

Thanks big brother, i've added it to Pdpedia tips and tricks

++
O.




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