sudo blocks aliases

[Arlen Christian Mart Cuss]

An excellent point. I stand corrected!

Tim Frost wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:07 +1100, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss wrote:
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>>The same. But, when I `man dash', I get the *man page* for `sh'. *sh* is 
>>a link to bash.
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>But the man page is the *BSD* sh man page:
>SH(1)                     BSD General Commands Manual                    SH(1)
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>NAME
>     sh - command interpreter (shell)
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>By comparison, both "man sh" and "man bash" get the man page for GNU
>Bourne-Again SHell:
>BASH(1)                                                                BASH(1)
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>NAME
>       bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
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>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
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>So there is a distinction.
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>>celtic at xyrias:~$ ls -l `which sh`
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-12-02 04:13 /bin/sh -> bash
>>celtic at xyrias:~$
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>Tim
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