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Ashiq
Ashiq

Reputation: 21

CentOS 7 sudo >> -E: command not found

I'm working on CentOS 7 and regular sudo commands (e.g. sudo yum update, etc.) are working fine. However, one of my sudo commands require to preserve the environment variables, so I used:

sudo -E ./build/unit-tests

and I get this error:

/var/tmp/sclyZMkcN: line 8: -E: command not found

It appears sudo is not recognizing the -E command on CentOS 7. What can I do in this case? Any alternatives or possible fix?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2827

Answers (2)

Łukasz Rajchel
Łukasz Rajchel

Reputation: 331

I've recently come across exactly the same problem. I tried to execute a script with sudo -E, which caused the above-mentioned -E: command not found error.

The reason turned out to be Red Hat Developer Toolset providing a broken sudo. A solution is to use the full sudo system path to make sure a good one is used, i.e.

/usr/bin/sudo -E ./some_script.sh

Upvotes: 3

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189387

I you know which variables to preserve, you can use env to pass them through the command line.

sudo env foo="$foo" bar="$bar" ./build/unit-tests

Upvotes: 0

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