Re: enviroment variable lost value

[Eric Blake]

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According to Xiaoqiang Zheng on 6/10/2009 3:46 AM:
> # su - oracle<<EOF
>> LANG=C
>> i=bin
>> /$i/hostname
>> EOF

This is shell quoting bug on your part, unrelated to coreutils; you may
want to ask on a more appropriate forum.  You need to quote your here-doc
or provide escaping for the $ if you want the $ to be a literal part of
the script fed through su, rather than being interpreted by the shell
prior to the spawning of su.  In other words, one of these two approaches:

# su - oracle<<\EOF
LANG=C
i=bin
/$i/hostname
EOF

# su - oracle<<EOF
LANG=C
i=bin
/\$i/hostname
EOF

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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