Article:		Scripting Mac OS X
Subject:		end-of-line character and sudo
Date:		2003-11-08 08:28:48
From:		hayne
A small correction: The end-of-line-character in UNIX is ASCII 10 - not 8 as reported in the article. (man ascii) And a recommendation: The article suggested using 'sudo /bin/sh' in order to run a script as root. It would be better to use 'sudo' instead. You could do 'sudo name-of-script' and it would run as root. The use of 'sudo' for individual commands/scripts is generally recommended instead of running a shell as root. This limits exposure to problems and has the side benefit that everything you do is logged.

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• end-of-line character and sudo
  2003-11-10 13:45:39  jamesreynolds [View]
  
  
  I prefer "sudo -s" or "sudo /bin/sh" but you can also use "sudo" before each command. That method is the general rule because it is safer, that is, it times out after a few minutes rather than leaving a command line with root access and as mentioned, the system does log each sudo command to /var/log/system.log.
  
  If you were following the tutorial, and you wanted to execute each line in the terminal, you would type:
  
  sudo rm -rf "/Users/labuser"
  sudo ditto -rsrcFork "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj" "/Users/labuser"
  sudo chown -R <username>:staff "/Users/labuser"
  
  instead of:
  
  sudo /bin/sh
  rm -rf "/Users/labuser"
  ditto -rsrcFork "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj" "/Users/labuser"
  chown -R <username>:staff "/Users/labuser"

• end-of-line character and sudo
  2003-11-10 11:46:25  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  The incorrect end-of-line-character in UNIX ASCII 10 has been fixed in the article.
• end-of-line character and sudo
  2004-01-01 13:34:15  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  No, it still says 8.