Linux Tips and Tricks

linux-tips.md

Home directory and env vars not set properly in su (switch user)

Use a login shell mode instead, it will initiate the client user's profile and rc scripts. It also prevents the client user shell from inheriting host env vars.

su -l example-user

Capture text from stderr

cat command using pipe | can only capture data from stdout.

Use this to capture data from stderr as well. Here less is used as pipe destination.

your_command 2>&1 | less

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