sudo blocks aliases

[Tim Frost]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:07 +1100, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss wrote:
> The same. But, when I `man dash', I get the *man page* for `sh'. *sh* is 
> a link to bash.

But the man page is the *BSD* sh man page:
SH(1)                     BSD General Commands Manual                    SH(1)

NAME
     sh - command interpreter (shell)


By comparison, both "man sh" and "man bash" get the man page for GNU
Bourne-Again SHell:
BASH(1)                                                                BASH(1)

NAME
       bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell

tim at marvin:~$ ls -l /usr/share/man/*/*sh.*.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 69525 2005-10-06 01:16 /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   713 2005-08-23 07:49 /usr/share/man/man1/bsh.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1500 2005-10-12 05:14 /usr/share/man/man1/chsh.1.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 21078 2005-05-12 21:26 /usr/share/man/man1/dash.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     9 2005-12-12 18:47 /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz -> bash.1.gz

So there is a distinction.
> 
> celtic at xyrias:~$ ls -l `which sh`
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-12-02 04:13 /bin/sh -> bash
> celtic at xyrias:~$


Tim