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Subject: Re: scripting elevated privilege on Windows 7
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Thank you Robert Pendell! I wrote this shell script. Any suggestions
for optimization?

#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
        echo "Usage: elev program arg1 arg2 ..."
        exit 1
fi
prog="$1"
shift
exec cygstart --action=runas `which "$prog"` "$@"


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