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Why is the alias needed at all though?
– jesse_b
Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 14:25
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The alias is not needed as such. But the original poster wanted to work this with an alias, for example because they wanted to understand how argument passing works. Ours not to question why.
– AlexP
Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 14:41
The trouble comes when they try to sudo call it...
– Jeff Schaller ♦
Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 15:19
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@JeffSchaller: Shell functions have the same problem...
– AlexP
Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 15:21

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