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Personally, I think this is a bad idea because it removes the extra step
needed to perform a priviliged action.  If you've configured sudo so
that you don't need to enter a password, then having the shell
automatically convert "commant" to "sudo command" is dangerous.  It's
equivalent to always running as root, which we all know I think is a bad
idea :)

> 2) Is this something bash completion could accomplish?

I don't think so.  But it might be possible to write a wrapper script
that takes user input, passes it to bash, then passes the bash output
back to the user.  For each user input command, if it starts with
'sudo', store the command in a hashtable.  If it doesn't start with
sudo, then see if the command is in the hashtable.  If it is, prepend
'sudo ' before passing it to bash.  I don't know how well that would
work with pipes though.

-- 
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