From: Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What does the minus sign - do?... in the command sudo su -
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:04:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33d8b765-19c5-402c-8428-cd31c6aada47@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2834.1380100781.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:19:32 AM UTC+2, Don Saklad wrote:
> What does the minus sign - do?... in the command
>
> sudo su -
May I propose to use "sudo -i" instead? It starts a login shell.
"sudo su -" is similar: sudo starts su which starts a login shell. I think it makes more sense to have sudo start a login shell, than to have sudo start su which starts a login shell...
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2013-09-25 12:35 ` What does the minus sign - do?... in the command sudo su - Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-25 12:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-25 12:52 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2013-09-30 20:04 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2013-09-25 9:19 Don Saklad
2013-09-25 9:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-25 13:09 ` Kevin Rodgers
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