how to pass environment variable to sudo su

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                          I basically need to do this:
 
    DUMMY=dummy
    sudo su - ec2-user -c 'echo $DUMMY'

This doesn't work. How can I pass the env variable $DUMMY to su? -p doesn't work with -l.

Asked by Umang (653 rep)

May 9, 2015, 06:51 AM
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how to pass environment variable to sudo su

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