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How to call many shell functions from sudo?
I have a huge alias file sourced by ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc which contains both simple aliases and more functions for more complex stuff:
# example aliases
alias "sudo=sudo "
alias "...
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Why doesn't 'sudo -E' preserve the function environment variables exported by export -f?
In script.sh:
#!/bin/bash
func(){
echo "I am here a func."
}
export -f func
export variable="I am here a variable"
sudo -E bash -c "func ; echo $variable"
And the output came:
bash: func: ...
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Run .bashrc function as sudo [duplicate]
I added this to ~/.bashrc to provide colorized tail:
tailc () {
tail $@ | ccze
}
And I can run it as so: tailc -f -n 10 foo/log.txt
But I can't use it on a privileged file:
sudo tailc -f -n 10 /...
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sudo without sudo, implying sudo in script
I made some scripts containing some functions which by design needs sudo permission. I have added those path in .bashrc for Linux and .bash_profile for MacOS so that it can be called from anywhere.
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How can I change user inside function
I have a bash script on centos7, and I need to execute some commands as different user. But it seems sudo works as expected outside function and didn't work inside bash function. I run script as ssh ...
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Executing a Bash Script Function with Sudo
I have a script that does a number of different things, most of which do not require any special privileges. However, one specific section, which I have contained within a function, needs root ...
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Bash function for piping data into protected file [duplicate]
I wanted to create a .bashrc function
that would simplify passing data to a write-protected file.
function pipe {
sudo bash -c "$1"
}
Unfortunately the command
pipe echo something > /etc/...
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Forward function and variables into sudo su - <user> <<EOF
I have declared functions and variables in bash/ksh and I need to forward them into sudo su - {user} << EOF:
#!/bin/bash
log_f() {
echo "LOG line: $@"
}
extVAR="yourName"
sudo su - <user&...
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Run nvm (bash function) via sudo
I want to write a init script that should basically run
nvm use v0.11.12 && forever start /srv/index.js
as the user webconfig. nvm is a shell function that is declared in ~webconfig/.nvm/nvm....
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How to enable `sudo` with custom functions?
Recently I learned you can enable sudo for custom aliases as follows:
alias sudo='sudo ' # note: the space is required!
The reason this works is the following:
If the last character of the alias ...
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How can I use sudo within a function?
I have written a function which acts in a similar way to tee but also pre-pends a datestamp. everything works fine except when i want to output to a file which is only root writable (in my case a ...
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