Re: precommand modifiers and alias sudo="sudo "

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Sebastian Stark wrote:
> I have set up an alias sudo="sudo " that enables use of aliases with  
> sudo.
> 
> But now precommand modifiers like "nocorrect" or "env"* stopped working.
> 
> p% alias mkdir
> mkdir='nocorrect mkdir'
> % sudo mkdir foo
> sudo: nocorrect: command not found
> %
> 
> Anything I can do? Or should I forget about the idea of using aliases  
> with sudo?

I don't see anything you can do automatically, offhand, but you can
suppress alias expansion by quoting any part of mkdir (e.g. \mkdir).

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