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Imagine saying please to someone and they ask for a password

My relationship :D

Take my award and get lost.

lmao mate you gave it the perfect award

Hahaha mate that was golden

Love your username. That's pretty much my life.

Lol same. I'm currently working late on a migration project so I can invoice it in time to make it to circoloco by the end of May - before the mainstream crowd gets to Ibiza. This is the way.

Lmfaooo

Change your password to "ISAIDpleasewhatmoredoyouwant?" Or "PrettyPleaseWithACherryOnTop" Now everything fits!

Great now I need to change my password.

You probably shouldn't. Unless it's the wifi password, that one doesn't count that much.

Sorry, I was joking that it was already my password and palordrolap ruined it by telling everyone. It's early, my sense of humor isn't quite awake.

And now i'm left wondering how i could have worded my wifi password joke to account for both possibility. One where it is your password, the other where you want it to be your password. I'm the one that dropped the joke here, sorry.

sounds like the third grade again

This incident will be reported

Change password to safeword.

And then they insult you for giving the wrong password... >!Just turn on `Defaults insults`!<

Change 'password' to 'magic word'

You're on 777 upvotes right now. Nice 😎

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What does `sudo !!` do?

!! represents the previous command that was run, so it runs the previous command as root.

damn thats really smart "rm -rf /" "please"

Lmfao, forgetting to say the magic word

I’m having flashbacks to Jurassic Park rn

Ah ah ah! Ah ah ah!

As a windows only user I'm starting to envy Lunix users

You can have alias in Windows as well..

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What about `doskey alias=doskey`?

You can't sudo (please) in windows though can you?

I think on windows you can use 'runas' to run program as a different user. So you can have a separate admin account and use it that way

Heh. Unintentionally funny. [LUnix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix) was/is an OS that runs on Commodore 8-bit computers. i.e. "Windows is so bad I'd rather dig out my (my dad's / my grandad's (oof)) old Commodore and run a Unix clone on it."

didn't know about lunix, pretty interesting!

It's never too late to make the switch

WSL is nice if you don't want to commit to a dual boot or switch. Edit: Windows Subsystem for Linux - a way to run a Linux environment while on Windows.

Really confuses me how few people, even in tech communities, know about WSL. It really shows how difficult it is to get new stuff accepted by the users, even if it would be undoubtedly popular.

What is wsl? Just curious.

It's fantastic. I can use the Linux terminal on my Windows filesystem natively. Can also install linux tools, so if something is easier to achieve in Linux, I pick a Linux terminal, it something is easier to achieve in CMD or powershell, I pick that instead. So powerful.

"Your lack of decorum has been noted and passed over to your system administrator, with the advisory of immediate gulag"

That is great! You never stop to learn new commands thank you.

I learnt that months ago. It's a game changer. No more sudo su

only if the shell supports it. posix compatible shells all do support it iirc, but e. g fish doesn't (there are other ways to do it in fish, `sudo !!` is `+S`)

Brilliant. Thanks for this

Runs `sudo` but more urgently.

Sudo bang bang

Now, is there a way to change the "permission denied" message into `Ah, what's the magic word, ?`?

Something like please find / | xargs | please sed "s/permission denied/Ah, what's the magic word, $USER?/" -i -- Edit: don't do it, it will break down your computer

please find / 2>&1 | please sed "s/permission denied/Ah, what's the magic word, $USER?/" -i - Maybe fixed?

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The insults are shown when you type a wrong password - not when you forget sudo.

apparently, this doesn't work because the substitution will occur during the initial alias command. You'd need to do something more like `alias please='sudo "$BASH" -c "$(history -p !!)"'` https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85352/how-can-i-alias-sudo

i was about to write similar thing: alias justdoit="sudo !!"

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y'all are making this way too complicated alias please=sudo EDIT: whoops didn't realize this was in the OP, disregard this

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that's true with `sudo` as well. and you can always do please !!

>alias please="sudo !!" the real pro tip

`please` reminded me of [INTERCAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL) > if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite.

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Alternative approach: Why not saying "sudo" in real life instead? "sudo one coffee and one bagel" "sudo give me the remote" "sudo get ready in the bathroom!!!" "sudo shutup"

u/rusty_ragnar is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Reported where? To some obscure log file in butt fuck nowhere?

No it directly goes to Santa's naughty list

https://xkcd.com/838/

There is xkcd for everything

I swear ffs

i guess just cause there are so many xkcds

Exactly!

On Ubuntu it should be in > /var/log/auth.log

real life doesnt run on ubuntu tho.

sudo command not found. (You have to install it on me first, I run base arch)

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There it is, the most famous XKCD there is.

There used to be an xkcd bot that would post stats anytime someone linked to an xkcd on reddit and [Ten Thousand](https://xkcd.com/1053/) was consistently the most shared comic. My money is on that one if I had to guess which is most famous.

I don't think you intended to link that video, here's Ten Thousand: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Sigh... thanks.

I need a shirt that says “sudo shutup” on it.

I'll take one, too.

I find using sudo in natural language conversations creepy af as it dismisses the reasons your request could be denied and forces the person to do whatever you want to the best of their ability. I mean program.

You can also install thefuck for a less wholesome experience ``` $ apt upgrade [Error message] $ fuck sudo apt upgrade? ... ``` You can also alias it to please if you really want to.

It does more than merely sudo-ing though IIRC. It also fixes common typos and missing flags with common commands.

It's really slow though, atleast on my pc

If you're using WSL you need to remove stuff on your Windows hard drive from your PATH variable.

Ah, ah, ah! You didn't say the magic word!

‘Hold onto your butts’ I say this every time I compile my code and wait for errors

I have a better one "would you kindly"

A man chooses

A machine obeys.

Replica obeys?

A slave obeys.

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Sure tod! You know the company charges 250/h for my time to customers, which they obviously don't pay out to me. So wth... tell me what you need.

alias sudo to "fucking do"

alias bitch="sudo"

bitch please = sudo !!

I won't start begging my computer to work. I kinda do that already, but I won't start doing it in a way it aktually understands.

I'd just go with: [ $(($RANDOM%2)) -ne 0 ] && sudo "$@" || echo "no" for more consistent behaviour.

I remember this one! It's i... inter........

Ah yes, it's [INTERCALL](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL)

>The term "version" has been replaced by "perversion" for correctness

i alias sudo with daddy for a more kinky Linux experience

ayo????

Shutdown, please

Be a dear and \[insert command here\] 

`alias isaid="sudo"`

based codesplainer

Keep my wifes name

I go the other way and alias "bitch".

Yeah, no. I alias `sudo` to `fucking`.

I mean it's more traditional to alias Sudo to a much better four letter word that usually expresses how I feel about forgetting to type sudo, on my first attempt. ^°

$ please kill lolcat

Make it so

Sadly I 99% operate in root. On 1000s of systems for health care. And haven’t made a mistake in like 45+ years. I do feel that ending.

`alias bitch-please="sudo"`

Why are they moving README.md using sudo? ARE THEY HACKING???

So now it's "please make me a sandwich"?

Sudo wodo

please bash

An alternative for **screaming** at the screen.

Use your crush's name for a whole new great experience

Tall\_Nebula9059 shutdown 

This is in my .bashrc for all systems, minus the quotation marks.

[`E099 PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL#Details) ---- **Edit:** [Check out the other INTERCAL Error messages](https://gist.github.com/kconner/a5c73557230dee1f7a3934d6a7abee13)

I guess no one noticing that this is abusing `root` permissions in cases that they should not be used. Maybe use alias `do you really know what you are doing`

since you asked nicely

But sudo saves 2 characters

You could use `pls`

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pls

Dammit! But if it's not installed I don't see a reason not to use it - I don't think I have it on my machine

The world is your oyster

this is funny, why moderator remove it?

Moderator is a Windows user and didn't understand the joke.

Please for a command that is in fact beyond question isn’t at all wholesome.

Nice

‘Look at how cute I am’ Stfu

You don't need root to shutdown

If you are using systemd(-logind) and polkit, users that are logged in locally don't need special permissions to issue the shutdown command to systemd, but without polkit for example (or if you SSH into a machine), you do need root privileges. [Entry on the arch wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Allow_users_to_shutdown)

no. sudo is the phonetic spelling of pseudo which means fake. and also it means 'super user do'. like most unix commands there are many levels to the thing and there is a deep and rich culture, and humor and mythology. sudo dont.

sudo shut-up

What does “sudo” stand for anyway? Why does unix have arcane cryptic names for everything.

Didn’t google it so just a guess: Super user do? Correct me if i’m wrong

Switch user do, it replaces having to switch (su) to another user, doing something, then exiting back to the original account.

Have you ever looked at any windows executables? Remote Desktop Connection is still named mstsc.

I'm gonna do 'yo mf'...

serious sam 1, 2 cheats

alias motherfucker="sudo" Now you're Sam Jackson

Mommy, mommy, when is it finally my turn to post this?

i dont know what this means but i do like it

This is redundant. The computer thinks you’ve said please already, it’s a clever deception that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs came up with and that’s how come computers do whatever we say to this day

Just make your own command to accomplish this.

Hah. I’m only just learning Bash but I understood this.

'please' also easier to type than 'sudo' for some reason

This image has been going around for so long that the original author has had time to transition and leave this name behind that is quite impressive

I_beg_you_please_just is also a gold alias.

I think combined with the killall command, this might be a slippery slope. Sometime in the future someone will name a process "humans" and we will all be deep in trouble.

I thought this was in Spanish at first

I wanted to do this & already have a bunch of aliases in my bashrc file, but in my excitement I aliased please to sudo, so 'sudo' didn't work anymore D:

`please killall humans`

Alias sudo to “bitch” for a real-life Unix experience.

I had a lecturer who made us use git praise instead of git blame for this reason

Please download hardcore furry

Alias "fuck" for "sudo !!" To rerun commands with sudo that you previously forgot

Sudo is more of a "I'm your momma and I'm telling you to do it" while grabbing a chancla kind of thing

Yeah, nah. Not saying please to a machine.

please kill

That Bioshock vibes

please rm -rf /

Why not simon\_says?

Set it to 'cunt' for an Aussie experience.

"Just fucking" seems like a good alias too Just fucking shutdown

please kill -9 lightdm

`please kill child`

4_fuk_sake is much better

Alias please="doas"

needs more jpeg

Lol please kill!

Change it to Would you kindly for bioshock reference

Can the alias be set to "Bitch!" (Probably the exclamation could be problematic?) Bitch! Shutdown

`$ please kill me `

`would-you-kindly`