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
