From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:15:22 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: dot/bashrc: Fix `rootly' to make a shell on demand.
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dot/bashrc: Fix `rootly' to make a shell on demand.

Annoyingly, `sudo' doesn't start a shell if you don't give it a command
to run.  So turn `rootly' into a shell function which does the right
thing for me.
---

ac03a1f6de3456e4f41330a3bf4644fa76bc1193
diff --git a/dot/bashrc b/dot/bashrc
index c39392a..69af4a1 100644
--- a/dot/bashrc
+++ b/dot/bashrc
@@ -98,7 +98,10 @@ alias cx='chmod a+x'
 alias which="command -v"
 alias rc="rc -l"
 alias ssync="rsync -e ssh"
-alias rootly=$__MDW_ROOTLY
+rootly () {
+  case $# in 0) set -- "${SHELL-/bin/sh}" ;; esac
+  $__MDW_ROOTLY "$@"
+}
 alias r=rootly
 alias re="rootly $EDITOR"
 alias pstree="pstree -hl"