Creating an alias containing bash history expansion

Question

I often forget to run a command with sudo, so I find myself often typing sudo !! immediately afterwards.

I tried aliasing this, but bash chokes on the !! part. Is there some way to represent this shortcut within an alias?

Answer 1

AIUI the problem is that history substitutions (!!) are done before alias substitution. I haven't tested this thoroughly, but it looks like fc can be used to get what you want:

alias sudothat='eval "sudo $(fc -ln -1)"'

Answer 2

From a colleague at work:

alias sa='sudo `history -p \!\!`'

appears to do the trick