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Run the last command as root

Terminal - Run the last command as root

sudo !!

2009-01-26 10:26:48

User: root

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Run the last command as root

Useful when you forget to use sudo for a command. "!!" grabs the last run command.

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Terminal - Alternatives

pfexec !!

2009-07-29 10:57:00

User: ilyxa

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Run the last command as root - (Open)Solaris version with RBAC

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sudo !!

2009-02-25 00:52:28

User: silbermm

Functions: sudo

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Run the previous command with sudo

I often forget to type sudo before a command that needs it. This is the quickest way to rerun the command prefixed by sudo.

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This one might be my most commonly used "one liner". I even wrote a post about it in my blog ;)

Comment by JackiesJungle 55 weeks and 5 days ago

Doesn't this only work under ZSH ?

Comment by pyrho 55 weeks and 4 days ago

doesnt seem to work under bash/centos4?

Comment by trix 55 weeks and 3 days ago

work on Ubuntu 8.04

Comment by mrbyte 55 weeks and 3 days ago

works on fedora with bash!

Comment by betsubetsu 54 weeks and 6 days ago

I almost never use sudo. It promotes bad security: using the same password for root and and for regular users.

Comment by grep 54 weeks and 5 days ago

This command owns all.

chmod 755 foo.bar operation not permitted sudo !! sudo chmod 755 foo.bar [sudo] password for waldo: (insert text of elation here)

Comment by farglenargle 54 weeks and 1 day ago

works in bash/Debian !!

Comment by prayer 53 weeks and 4 days ago

I love you.

Befor I'v been so pissed off after typing long stings of command, and then have forgotten sudo. Therefor having to go all the way to the beginning of the command and enter sudo.

Love it

Comment by Meeko 52 weeks ago

@meeko "All the way to the beginning"? Just hit the HOME key. Life is short! :-)

sudo is great for sandwich making also:

http://www.xkcd.com/149/

Comment by mpb 51 weeks and 4 days ago

lots of the machines we use don't do home key - they do ~ instead - go figure.

this could be very usefull. Thanks.

I use !$ a lot. repeats the last word in the previous command

e.g.

ping

nslookup !$

will translate to

nslookup

obviously the first ! grabs the previous line, and the second character does somnething else - ! grabs the first word, $ grabs the last word.

anyone know any other variants or where to look up the man page - er... is it regexp or part of sh or perl or what??? ('scuse my ignorance - the unix needs a reverse lookup database)

Comment by bulwynkl 51 weeks ago

Regarding using the "home" key to get to the beginning of a command.. I just wanted to note, that you can almost always use "Ctrl-A" to jump to the beginning of the line in Bash and many other programs. I think it's part of libreadline? Also, if you're using Bash in a Screen session, use Ctrl-A twice to jump to the beginning of a line.

Comment by cmang 50 weeks and 6 days ago

The HOME key is a single key press.

Why chose a two key sequence instead of one?

Comment by mpb 50 weeks and 4 days ago

I love this because it always feels like I'm yelling at my computer.

do_something # i don't wanna... SUDO!! # ok, fine...

Comment by isaacs 50 weeks and 1 day ago

I vote this down, because 'sudo' is not meant to be used in this way. Totally bad security practice! Even if you are the only user in your computer, you are advised to put only those commands that are safe and commonly used in the sudoers file. Otherwise, you are probably going to learn it in a hard way.

Comment by jxy 49 weeks and 6 days ago