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Re: using command aliases with sudo

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From: Stephen Rueger <stephen.rueger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: using command aliases with sudo
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:23:37 +0200
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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:04:44AM -0500, Eric Mangold wrote:
> I'm thinking of writing an extension to zsh that makes aliases work
> with sudo.
> 
> For example, I have an alias agi="apt-get install", since this needs root I 
> often find myself typing "sudo agi foo", which of course doesn't work.
> 
> If someone has already done this or has suggestions for an implementation, 
> please reply :)

You can use a global alias (alias -g)

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Stephen Rüger

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