sudo su problem

[Agent-X]

At the moment, I'm playing with a script. It goes like this:

sudo su
echo "meow"

It's that simple. The script is called "kitty." I have it on the desktop.

Anyway, when I go into terminal, I do the following.

cd ./Desktop/
bash kitty

It goes into root, but it doesn't echo.

Why does it not echo?

I eventually want to use scripts like this in a more advanced way. However, at the moment, I'm just trying to access root with a script. Afterwards, I want the script to continue.

Why does the script not continue after going into root?

[bigtomrodney]

This won't work because su is running as a seperate terminal. The echo command will run when you terminate the 'su' with ctrl+d. Why don't you have a shabang in your script?

#!/bin/bash

The correct way to do it is to write the script you want and then run that script as root or using sudo.