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Sudo doesnt retain settings of ~/.config (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago by clot27@lemm.ee to c/nix@programming.dev
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Whenever I run any command line tools without sudo, they take the settings as in ~/.config and work fine. But whenever I run the same CLI tools with same parameters but with sudo, it falls back to default setting. How can I make this behavior consistent?

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[–] JohnnyMac@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A lot of times sudo -E will solve these types of issues because it preserves current environments variables. Honestly it might be all that's needed to fix your current issue. I was just mentioning it so you know for the future.

I meant that it might not work because there's probably not an environment variable directly for .config. however if the program is coded to look at $HOME/.config then the -E would solve the problem.