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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: 'alias' + sudo
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:06:48 -0500, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> sudo does not run root's shell at all; it directly runs whatever is given it
> on the commandline.

Another idea would to be to call sudo with the desired shell as
argument (in order to inherit the aliases), followed by a command
as argument to the shell (in order to execute a particular command),
something like

	% sudo bash -c "my_command_alias"

It may be possible that bash requires an additional argument to tell
it to read ~/.bashrc when invoked in a non-interactive manner.

Keep in mind that I haven't tried this solution because I don't
use bash on a regular basis.


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Polytropon
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