permission script

[David N. Lombard]

Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote:
> I just wrote a little script, that will echo a message to the user, if 
> it doesn't have enough permission:
 >
> $ if ! [ "$(env LC_MESSAGES=C ifconfig wlan0 down | grep -i denied)" == 
> "" ]; then echo "no permission"; fi

You can also directly use grep for that:

LC_MESSAGES=C ifconfig wlan0 down 2>&1 | grep -qi denied && echo "no perm"

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David N. Lombard