Changing to root user inside shell script

Question

I have a shell script which needs non-root user account to run certain commands and then change the user to root to run the rest of the script. I am using SUSE11. I have use

Answer 1

Also, note that if you are changing to "root" user inside a shell script like below one, few Linux utilities like awk for data extraction or defining even a simple shell variable etc will behave weirdly.

To resolve this simply quote the whole document by using <<'EOF' in place of EOF.

sudo -i <<'EOF'
ls
echo "I am root now"
EOF