[Techtalk] sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

[Chris Booth]

You can do:

 > sudo -i

... which will switch you to root and allow you to enter a series of 
commands. Type 'exit' when you want to go back to being the regular user.

- Chris

At 01:11 26/10/2008, Kelly Jones wrote:
>How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the
>semicolon ends the whole sudo command:
>
> > sudo whoami; whoami
>root
>user
>
>This confuses tcsh:
>
>monica:~> sudo ( whoami ; whoami )
>Badly placed ()'s.
>
>I could obviously write a shell script or something or do:
>
> > sudo whoami; sudo whoami
>
>but is there a better way?
>
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