[sudo-users] sudo -u #uid on Kubuntu Feisty

[Matthew Stier]

The problem you were encountering, is that in most shells, the 
octothorpe (#) is a begin of comments character.

You displayed on means of escaping the character from interpretation.  
Another is single quoting. (Typically the entire token.)

ie:  sudo -u '#1000' .....

R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
> Wesley Schwengle wrote:
>
>   
>> 15:17 pts/2 1 wesleys at eniac:/home/wesleys$ sudo -u \#1000 find . -name 
>> \*.tgz
>> ./Desktop/logger.tgz
>>     
>
> Thank you for pointing out that the # is indeed necessary but needs to be 
> escaped by a \ to give \#. That solved the problem and also explained why I was 
> getting the help text with a plain # :-)
>
> Chandra
> 06 Aug 07
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