Getting sudo to work for an alias I installed Sublime Text 3 in Fedora 20 which has got GNOME, as I couldn't get it being _called_ from terminal I created a `.bash_aliases` file which a line like this: alias sublime='sublime_text' And so also added the sublime_text file location to the PATH by editing `.bashrc` file adding: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/share/applications/sublime-text-3/ However, when I want to edit any file for which I might get **_sudo privilege_** first I want to do: sudo sublime sudoLikelyFile or sudo sublime_text sudoLikelyFile However I'm getting: sudo: sublime: command not found How can I work around for this?

There are two potential problems here.

Firstly, you need to make your shell expand aliases after `sudo`:


alias sudo='sudo '


From `man bash`:

> 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.

Secondly, on many distributions, `$PATH` is not propagated to the new shell by sudo. You can manually change `secure_path` to add the directory which the `sublime_text` executable is in:


Defaults secure_path = [...]:/usr/local/share/applications/sublime-text-3


...or you can disable secure_path altogether (note: `secure_path` makes sure that an attacker cannot change your path and use it to influence the command you will run as root, so consider this carefully):


Defaults !secure_path