Running su with -c gives unrecognized command error
I am trying to run a command as another user in Linux. Here is what I run:
su user1 -c '/bin/mkdir /tmp/zz'
However, this gives me this error:
fatal: unrecognized command '/bin/mkdir /tmp/zz'
You need to swap the single quotes for double quotes. Not that these are only required with commands that take parameters, or if you chain several commands together.
su user1 -c "/bin/mkdir /tmp/zz"