On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:58:24PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote: > > I find sudo to be particularly ill informed at times. > > > sudo for ii in 1 2 3;do echo $ii;done > > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do' I suspect the problem here is, perhaps not that sudo doesn't know "do", but rather that bash terminates your command at the semi-colon. Perhaps you should consider why you need to run a for loop as root? Consider the following: for ii in 1 2 3; do sudo echo $ii; done or for ii in $(sudo seq 1 3); do echo $ii; done -- Darac Marjal
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