how to run two commands in sudo?

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For your command you also could refer to the following example:

sudo sh -c 'whoami; whoami'

sudo can run multiple commands via a shell, for example:

$ sudo -s -- 'whoami; whoami'
root
root

Your command would be something like:

sudo -u db2inst1 -s -- "db2 connect to ttt; db2 UPDATE CONTACT SET EMAIL_ADDRESS = '[email protected]'"

If your sudo version doesn't work with semicolons with -s (apparently, it doesn't if compiled with certain options), you can use

sudo -- sh -c 'whoami; whoami'

instead, which basically does the same thing but makes you name the shell explicitly.

I usually do:

sudo bash -c 'whoami; whoami'

If you would like to handle quotes:

sudo -s -- <<EOF
id
pwd
echo "Done."
EOF

An alternative using eval so avoiding use of a subshell:

sudo -s eval 'whoami; whoami'

Note: The other answers using sudo -s fail because the quotes are being passed on to bash and run as a single command so need to strip quotes with eval. eval is better explained is this SO answer

Quoting within the commands is easier too:

$ sudo -s eval 'whoami; whoami; echo "end;"'
root
root
end;

And if the commands need to stop running if one fails use double-ampersands instead of semi-colons:

$ sudo -s eval 'whoami && whoamit && echo "end;"'
root
/bin/bash: whoamit: command not found