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Old 05-22-2002
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No problem, fbavent! The sudo commmand is a corruption of "pseudo," as in pseudonym, i.e., an alias. Sudo lets you impersonate the superuser for any command line. If you'd like the manual pages for sudo, they're on your system now--type in man sudo to view them. If you'd like one of my patented shiny PDFs of this or any other manual page, just post below--I'll e-mail it to you!
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% man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.