On 2013-07-04 14:44, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote: > The answer as to why are your command line options ignored by > MacPorts is quite simple. I suppose (and here I'm gonna guess) you > didn't really do a "port upgrade percona-toolkit" but rather a "sudo > port upgrade percona-toolkit". The thing is, sudo ignores all your > aliases! but since you "shadowed" a command (port) with an alias > (alias port="port -cn") sudo didn't complain and happily executed the > port command (with no options!).
This is a correct description of the situation. Although this is not helping in the initial discussion, I want to share an unobvious feature of bash with you that helps in situations like this. Quoting the man page: If the last character of the alias value is a blank, then the next command word following the alias is also checked for alias expansion. Therefore, add the following to your .bashrc: alias sudo='sudo ' The space at the end tells bash to look up aliases for the next word. This means that typing "sudo foo" will lead to 'foo' being looked up as a shell alias. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
