sudo in terminal

[Ian P. Thomas]

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