can I run 'su' in the middle of a bash script?

Question

can I change/su user in the middle of a script?

if [ \"$user\" == \"\" ]; then
  echo \"Enter the table name\";
  read user
fi

gunzip *
chown postgres *
su pos         


        

Answer 1

No you can't. Or atleast... you can su but su will simply open a new shell at that point and when it's done it will continue with the rest of the script.

One way around it is to use su -c 'some command'