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I am trying to write a udev rule for USB drive plugin. I want to first mount it to /media and then run the script at /usr/local/bin/script.sh. When I insert the USB, it doesn't even mount the device with this rule. However, If I manually type the part in RUN into terminal, It mounts and executes script.

The rule file says:

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", RUN+="/bin/mount -t auto /dev/%k /media/ && /usr/local/bin/script.sh"

Is this the right way to execute two commands in RUN section of the rule?

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It is not the right way to execute 2 commands. I do not like the matching part of your rule either, but I am going to leave it as it is for this example. You could do :

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '/bin/mount -t auto /dev/%k /media/ && /usr/local/bin/script.sh'"

or

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", RUN+="/bin/mount -t auto /dev/%k /media/", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/script.sh"

but in your case why won't you just move the mount command inside of your script?

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