I've made a custom command in bash and I placed it in ~/.local/bin which is a path loaded by the ~/.profile. When I run the command through a terminal without sudo it's fine, but when I try to run it with sudo the output is:
sudo: my_command: command not found
Could you tell me how I can accomplish that?
Try sudo -E, this preserves your environment, may not work in all cases.
Seeing as you need an environment variable that is set by .profile also try sudo -i this performs a login, requiring you to also use -c my_command
If you still want to use sudo my_command without the any options check your /etc/sudoers file, and ensure the secure_path variable is set and contains the path that contains your command. This may require placing it somewhere generally available like /usr/local/bin
sudo has a PATH that is different than yours. sudo does not read ~/.profile.
Check it out:
$ sudo sh
# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
#
Compare the output you get to verify that ~/.local/bin is not included.
Accomplishing what you want to do is best done like this:
sudo ~/.local/bin/YourBashScript
Technically, you could also change sudo's PATH, but that's probably not your best move.
sudo without any options so I think the best way is to modify secure_path in /etc/sudoers adding the command path
– Gerardo Martínez Rodríguez
Apr 03 '19 at 14:34
sudo $(type -P my_command)– jordanm Apr 02 '19 at 19:59sudopreserve $PATH? command not found using sudo in script – fra-san Apr 02 '19 at 20:44