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From: shirono@hcx3.SSD.HARRIS.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Summary of Responses
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Date: 2 Sep 88 22:39:00 GMT
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In comp.unix.questions <1000 Aug 31, 1988>, leightsu@neptune.UUCP writes:
> <...>
>
> 	su user -c shellscript
>
> <...> where is the su -c option documented. 
> It is not documented in the Ultrix and BSD4.3 doc sets that I have in 
> my possession. Am I missing something?

Yes.  -c is not an option to su.  It is an option to sh, csh, ksh (and
I believe tcsh, as well).

I don't know if Ultrix says anything about it, but sysV su has a
command line of the form

	     su [ - ] [ name [ arg ... ] ]

where [ arg ... ] are arguments passed verbatim to the shell.

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