How to keep environment variables when using sudo

By default, the sudo command does not pass your current shell environment to the new process.

I’ve added the function below to my bash configuration which will gives me an esudo command. This command works much like sudo but it will pass my current environment to the new process.

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function esudo { sudo -E bash -c "$*"; }

If you use a ruby version manager, you’ll know that they generally rely on environment variables, so rvm provide the rvmsudo command for this purpose. I’ve since switched to chruby and I couldn’t seem to find an equivalent, but this has solved the issue for me.