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    [–] olafurp@lemmy.world 135 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

    You can also just do a sudo !! the !! is a shorthand for whatever you tried to run previously.

    [–] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

    What shell are you using? In both bash and zsh, !! is a substitute for a previous command

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago

    Was about to say, why would you copy anything when using sudo !! lol

    [–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    wish i could alias that

    alias ffs="sudo !!"

    [–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    alias ffs='sudo $(history -p !!)'

    [–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

    Just to confirm: I tried this, it works.

    [–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    That doesn't work? I would have thought it would work.

    [–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    !! Gets replaced by whatever was run before the alias command

    [–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Not all shells support that.

    I use fish btw.

    [–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] guymontag@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Holy shit I wish fish supported it. I just press up arrow then hold left arrow and manually type sudo. It fucking sucks

    [–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    ... are you not aware of Alt+S?!

    [–] guymontag@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

    Nope haha. Thanks for letting me know

    [–] tekino@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I've been using this plugin https://github.com/oh-my-fish/plugin-bang-bang fish also allows going through previous arguments with alt+up

    [–] guymontag@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

    Epicc. I should install thjs

    [–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    I've used it for so many years that it's not an issue anymore. I remember using !! a lot but it was literally just for sudo. Now i either write what I need and do up or write what I need and then press alt+s, which seems even more intuitive now.

    [–] BolshoyToster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Does your keyboard not have a home key?

    [–] guymontag@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

    Didn't know home key could do that lol.

    [–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I don't even know what I use anymore. My distro seems to keep changing it when I reinstall.

    [–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

    I learned something new today!

    [–] adeoxymus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

    I completely forgot about this one!