[Portland] xdg-su syntax

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:11:07PM -0700, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It was suggested to me that it would be better for xdg-su to follow
> the
> >> "sudo"-syntax rather than the "su -c" syntax because it has less
> >> potential for getting the shell escaping wrong.
> >> For illustration, to run "rpm -i '/tmp/some file'" as root the
> current
> >> syntax is:
> >> 	xdg-su -c "rpm -i '/tmp/some file'"
> >>
> >> The new proposed syntax would be:
> >> 	xdg-su rpm -i "/tmp/some file"
> >>
> >> The drawback seems to be that if you want to do a shell command like
> >> "cd /tmp; rpm -i 'some file'" you will still end up with
> >> 	xdg-su sh -c "cd /tmp; rpm -i 'some file'"
> >>
> >> Opinions?
> >
> >Would this work as well?
> >
> >	xdg-su "cd /tmp && rpm -i 'some file'"
> 
> That would need to be
> 	xdg-su sh -c "cd /tmp && rpm -i 'some file'"

Hrm, seems a rather cumbersome syntax.

Bryce