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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 t

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 '...'