sudo in terminal
Ian P. Thomas
ipt at scraemon.org
Tue Feb 22 22:32:55 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:13 -0500, H. Crissman wrote:
> When I "vi example.file" the text inside the file is color coded based
> on format (ie. commented out lines are blue). But when I "sudo vi
> example.file" that color coding is lost. How can I enable that when I
> edit a file using sudo? It really helps when you are looking at a long
> config file.
>
> Thanks,
>
> H. Crissman
This will do what you want, which is to keep your environment the same,
but have root's privileges.
su root -m -c 'command you want to run between the single quotes'
The downside is that you need to type in root's password, rather then
your own.
Ian
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