Re: su -c / --command

[The Wanderer]

Torsten Trenkler wrote:

> Hello,
>
> su option "-c" works correctly but option "--command" as explained in
> manpage doesn't work.
>
> System: Debian-testing-etch up to date, german manpage

FWIW, this means coreutils version 5.96, Debian package version 5.

Using either that version or my more usual 5.97 (the latest in Debian
unstable), I cannot reproduce this; both forms of the switch work as
expected.

5.96:
==
address@hidden:/tmp$ rm -f file ; touch file
address@hidden:/tmp$ su -c 'ls file'
Password:
file
address@hidden:/tmp$ su --command 'ls file'
Password:
file
==

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