Timeline for In Bash, when to alias, when to script and when to write a function?
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| Aug 15, 2022 at 11:55 | comment | added | ychaouche | "Only separate script can be used with sudo" : NO. you can have sudo inside the alias or function or script. "Only aliases or functions could replace system commands under same name " : No again. You can have your own scripts that replace system commands. | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 8:17 | comment | added | tripleee | While it is true that executing a script will momentarily consume more memory for the duration of the fork+exec, having a lot of code loaded into the memory of the current shell instance makes it consume more memory going forward, often to store code which only gets used fairly rarely. | |
| May 9, 2012 at 15:32 | comment | added | Mikel |
Aliases can also be used with sudo. But first you need alias sudo='sudo '.
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| Feb 10, 2012 at 16:37 | history | answered | corvinus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |