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Always amused me that sudo !! is actually more keypresses (at least on keyboards where typing ! requires holding Shift).
You just blew my mind. sudo [space] [shift] !! [enter] (4+1+1+1+1+1) is one keypress longer than β + home + sudo + space + enter (1+1+4+1+1). In your face, universe.
If you have an actual home key. If it's ctrl+a or (IIRC, AFK) ctrl+β then we're even.
And if we track hand movements then pressing ! twice may be faster than moving to another key.
But yeah, it's not at all clear that sudo !! is faster like you'd expect it to be.
But it's faster since your hand move less and you can keep shift pressed
I use zsh with the sudo plugin. Double tap esc and your current or last command will be prefixed with sudo.
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- ctrl + p
- ctrl + a
- sudo [space]
- enter
How about just one keyboard shortcut and enter.
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You can also just do a sudo !! the !! is a shorthand for whatever you tried to run previously.
Was about to say, why would you copy anything when using sudo !! lol
Not all shells support that.
I use fish btw.
I made my own !!
I know what you meant (I have one for fish as well), but I chucked because you looked very enthusiastic about it!
The fish function for !! is super useful though
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I learned something new today!
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alias fuck="sudo !!"
Wait, you don't have The Fuck installed?
Waiting for it to be rewritten in rust
Only worth installing if it is π₯π₯π₯blazingβ‘β‘β‘fast
You can do that??
I always did sudo !!
Well its only for fish shell.
But in almost any shell there is also ctrl+a sudo. ctrl+s requires you haven't sent it yet.
Or also up ctrl+a sudo. It's only one more key press than sudo !!, and unlocks ctrl-a. More useful to teach noobs IMO. Teach a skill instead of a quirk.
I am using fish shell and just tried it. Thanks man. Such a convenient feature NGL
No problem.
Top text should maybe say copying by, rather than copying then? Since sudo !! will automatically copy the previous command with sudo in front of it, so there's no manual copying involved
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I know alt +. inserts the last argument of previous commands. There must be a good list of alt commands somewhere because they're pretty damn useful.
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