su: What does the hyphen with nothing immediately following it mean?
Written as if it were an option, e.g:
> su - someuser
Don’t the space breaks apart “-“ and “someuser”? I went through the manpage but didn’t notice an entry for it.
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Written as if it were an option, e.g:
> su - someuser
Don’t the space breaks apart “-“ and “someuser”? I went through the manpage but didn’t notice an entry for it.
linux bash options
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Written as if it were an option, e.g:
> su - someuser
Don’t the space breaks apart “-“ and “someuser”? I went through the manpage but didn’t notice an entry for it.
linux bash options
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Written as if it were an option, e.g:
> su - someuser
Don’t the space breaks apart “-“ and “someuser”? I went through the manpage but didn’t notice an entry for it.
linux bash options
linux bash options
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Never mind ! I just found it, i thought it would be on its own but it wasn’t. Man page reads “Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly”.
I’m such a scattered brain—sorry!
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Never mind ! I just found it, i thought it would be on its own but it wasn’t. Man page reads “Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly”.
I’m such a scattered brain—sorry!
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Never mind ! I just found it, i thought it would be on its own but it wasn’t. Man page reads “Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly”.
I’m such a scattered brain—sorry!
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Never mind ! I just found it, i thought it would be on its own but it wasn’t. Man page reads “Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly”.
I’m such a scattered brain—sorry!
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