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Re: [opensuse] zypper lu and zypper up inconsistent
  • From: Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:42:45 +0200
  • Message-id: <200904140142.45320.ajohansson@xxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 01:34:41 Rajko M. wrote:
Why is difference in output of command echo?

Because $HOME gets evaluated before sudo is called. The call is translated by
bash to

sudo echo /home/rm

Try

sudo bash -c 'echo $HOME'

The apostrophes prevent bash from translating it before passing it on to sudo

Anders
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