"sudo -i" is better than "sudo -s" (was Re: mv while retaning permissions?)

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

First of all, my apology for being nit-picky.

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 12:06 +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
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> (*) yeah, we all have learnt ubuntu doesn't have root by now. 
>     "sudo -s" will do.
> 
"sudo -i" is much better (and probably safer to use) than "sudo -s" as
it reinitialize all "root"'s environment variables (like "$HOME" among
others).

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Ziyad.