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Sudo doesnt retain settings of ~/.config (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

The letter ~ (tilde) is relative to the current user. When you use sudo, you become root. So ~ points to /root. Whereas if you are not using sudo then ~ points to /home/yourname