I have root enabled on osx El Captain. I tried some of the solution already provided on stackoverflow and supersu but couldn't fix the error. I exported function parse_git_branch()
to .bash_profile
from .bash_prompt
but I still get this error. I don't know bash scripting so I have no idea what's going on and what is to be fixed.
abhimanyuaryan at Macbook in ~
$ sudo su
sh: parse_git_branch: command not found
root at Macbook in /Users/abhimanyuaryan
.bash_profile
if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi
# Add Homebrew `/usr/local/bin` and User `~/bin` to the `$PATH`
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
# Load the shell dotfiles, and then some:
# * ~/.path can be used to extend `$PATH`.
# * ~/.extra can be used for other settings you don’t want to commit.
for file in ~/.{path,bash_prompt,exports,aliases,functions,extra}; do
[ -r "$file" ] && source "$file"
done
unset file
.bash_prompt
# @gf3’s Sexy Bash Prompt, inspired by “Extravagant Zsh Prompt”
# Shamelessly copied from https://github.com/gf3/dotfiles
# Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/s0Blh.png
if [[ $COLORTERM = gnome-* && $TERM = xterm ]] && infocmp gnome-256color >/dev/null 2>&1; then
export TERM=gnome-256color
elif infocmp xterm-256color >/dev/null 2>&1; then
export TERM=xterm-256color
fi
if tput setaf 1 &> /dev/null; then
tput sgr0
if [[ $(tput colors) -ge 256 ]] 2>/dev/null; then
# Changed these colors to fit Solarized theme
MAGENTA=$(tput setaf 125)
ORANGE=$(tput setaf 166)
GREEN=$(tput setaf 64)
PURPLE=$(tput setaf 61)
WHITE=$(tput setaf 244)
else
MAGENTA=$(tput setaf 5)
ORANGE=$(tput setaf 4)
GREEN=$(tput setaf 2)
PURPLE=$(tput setaf 1)
WHITE=$(tput setaf 7)
fi
BOLD=$(tput bold)
RESET=$(tput sgr0)
else
MAGENTA="\033[1;31m"
ORANGE="\033[1;33m"
GREEN="\033[1;32m"
PURPLE="\033[1;35m"
WHITE="\033[1;37m"
BOLD=""
RESET="\033[m"
fi
export MAGENTA
export ORANGE
export GREEN
export PURPLE
export WHITE
export BOLD
export RESET
function parse_git_dirty() {
[[ $(git status 2> /dev/null | tail -n1) != *"working directory clean"* ]] && echo "*"
}
function parse_git_branch() {
git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e "s/* \(.*\)/\1$(parse_git_dirty)/"
}
export PS1="\[${BOLD}${MAGENTA}\]\u \[$WHITE\]at \[$ORANGE\]\h \[$WHITE\]in \[$GREEN\]\w\[$WHITE\]\$([[ -n \$(git branch 2> /dev/null) ]] && echo \" on \")\[$PURPLE\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[$WHITE\]\n\$ \[$RESET\]"
export PS2="\[$ORANGE\]→ \[$RESET\]"
The problem here is that when you do sudo su
, you are changing to root but you are keeping your own profile. That profile contains a setting for the command prompt that references a bash function. But when you sudo to root, you are getting root's shell, which is sh
instead of bash
- so any modifications that rely on bash configurations will not work, including the function you are referencing in your PS1
.
So, the first thing to do is to make sure that you are actually running bash instead of sh when you sudo. This is very simple - instead of running sudo su
, you simply run sudo bash
.
Since sudo defaults to switching to root, you will now be running the bash shell as root, instead of just switching to the root user's default shell.
If you still have problems, this may be due to your .bash_profile containing a reference to the current user's home directory, in that it points to ~
in these lines:
for file in ~/.{path,bash_prompt,exports,aliases,functions,extra}; do
[ -r "$file" ] && source "$file"
done
When you run bash as yourself, ~
will expand to your own home directory - but when you run it as root, it will evaluate to /var/root
and that's where it will look for your files.
There are three ways you can fix this; choose whichever one you prefer.
/var/root
sudo su
, do sudo su -
. This will give you root's environment instead of your own. The downside is that all your own environment modifications will not be available to you, and you will be running sh
instead of bash
. (In some operating systems, those are the same thing, but in others it's not. I believe that MacOSX is one of those where sh
and bash
are different things.)have you export your $PS1 ? You can check by run command:
printenv
else you should export it by run:
export -n PS1
after you will can run sudo or sudo su without problem
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