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Subject: Re: Command alias in non-command position
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Bruce Stephens wrote:
>            Could I define sudo somehow, to say that its first
>argument ought to be expanded as if it were in the command position?

alias sudo='sudo '

permits alias expansion of the word following an alias-expanded sudo.

-zefram