sudo multiple commands at once without shell script

[Tom Marchand]

This works for me:

sudo sh -c "whoami;whoami"



On Oct 25, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Kelly Jones wrote:

> How do I run multiple sudo commands at once? This fails because the
> semicolon ends the whole sudo command:
>
>> sudo whoami; whoami
> root
> user
>
> This confuses tcsh:
>
> monica:~> sudo ( whoami ; whoami )
> Badly placed ()'s.
>
> I could obviously write a shell script or something or do:
>
>> sudo whoami; sudo whoami
>
> but is there a better way?
>
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