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sudo tip: `sudo -i`!

• fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
  Yeah, sudo su always annoys me: sudo -i if you want a login shell and sudo -s if you don’t (e.g. you cd-ed somewhere and forgot to become root, but don’t want to cd again because the path is long or you have done some complicated setup.
  • mkesper 7y ago
    Sudo su -c 'command1|command2' makes sense if both commands need root but you want to stay normal user afterwards.
    • yrro 7y ago
      Then sudo bash -c '...'