Subject: Re: bug#11194: 24.0.95; sudo rm doesn't work with absolute directory paths on the file system

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:00:17 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> Sounds like a bug in eshell/sudo: it should not use builtins.

Don't know. Sometimes, it makes sense for builtins running under sudo.
Like `.', an alias for `eshell/.'. It sources a file, and executes
eshell commands from this file.

sudo . .eshell/history

sounds like a useful command. Just as example, other examples could  be there.

I still believe, we shall emphasize in the manual, that file names are
interpreted like in `find-file'. This is the spirit of `eshell'.
Otherwise, one shall use plain `shell'.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.