Make environment variables available when running command as sudo

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Published on 2010-04-20T18:58:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 19:03 UTC
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I am using Curl, and am having a problem trying to get it to recognize the $http_proxy environment variable when using sudo curl. I tried putting export http_proxy=.... in my /etc/profile and restarting the shell, to no avail. I would rather not use su -l and run the command while logged in as root.

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