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From: | Peter Dyballa |
Subject: | Re: SU commands from Emacs |
Date: | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:51:07 +0200 |
Am 24.08.2007 um 08:38 schrieb Dieter Wilhelm:
jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:Sometimes I want to do a command that requires root privileges.Yes, lately I stumbled over a find-grep in /etc. How could this be done with root privileges?
Use Tramp: C-x d /sudo::/etc RET and then do the usual things, find- grep, occur, or whatever. Once you've opened a directory with root privileges all subsequently following commands (f or e or ! in dired- mode for example) are as by root. So you better work very carefully ...
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