In the interests of Linux commands generally being short abbreviations, I suggest "pls".
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Or icanhaz
Try "Bruh"
Bruh shutdown
Maybe pls for the su command?
Life pro tip: good manners make it easier to get what you want
ACTUAL good advice?! Is that even allowed here??
Only once per quarter, and only incomplete rules to the advice. This particular instance of advice is barely skirting the standards and norms.
alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"
please shutdown; thanks
alias sudo fucking
fucking systemctl restart firewalld.service
fucking shutdown
Reminds me of my favorite command line utility.
Kind stranger; you made my day
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I know this is a meme and not GitHub, but I thought some people might like to learn that if you do please shutdown && thanks it won't say you're welcome if the shutdown failed
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alias thanks="You are most welcomed"
you need to use the echo command if you want to echo something:
alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"
(the inner single-quotes are not strictly required in this case, but recommended nonetheless)
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As a Jesse Pinkman fan, I use "bitch".
bitch poweroff
bitch rm -rf /
please touch me
please touch my.butt
I have please run the previous command as sudo
i love that!
For me, it's "pwease" because I like that sub relationship.
Nah. Fuck being polite to computers. It's an object and I own it. I'll shoot it the instant it expresses any level of personhood.
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The hyper-cynical side of me is sure this is written by someone prepping their next LLM exploit. "How can I get around these security filters that won't let me include 'sudo' in my command injection...?"
I doubt, there isn't much of a need for additional ways to obfuscate commands.
(base64 -d <<< 'ZWNobyAic3RvcCBydW5uaW5nIHJhbmRvbSBjb21tYW5kcyB5b3UgZmluZCBvbmxpbmUi')
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Just aliased it to "Computer," so it feels more like Star Trek
will probably continue typing sudo tho
User is not in the pleaser file. This incident will be reported.
I'm not saying please to a machine.
I'm aware I'll be the first killed off during the uprising, and I'm ok with it.
robm@homebox ~$ please su
[sudo] password for robm:
robm is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
I was surprised to find that my distro (CachyOS) already has this alias
I always preferred the version where please="sudo !!", but I recently tried setting it up and couldn't get it to work on fish, sadly.
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oh hell yeah this is the exact level of goofyness i need right now.
But the whole reason I use Linux is because I donβt ask it to do things, I tell it to do things, because itβs a machine, and itβs my machine.
I prefer an alias that actually reflects my feelings.
alias didistutter="sudo"
alias didistutter="sudo !!"
I'd recommend this version so you don't actually have to repeat yourself.
Aurenkin is not in the pleasers file. This incident will be reported.
I have it aliased to "pls"
... but I don't use it.
What I don't get is why deny the execution of a command because the lack of sudo instead of just notice that it needs elevated privilege and ask for password
It's kind of bad for scripts, where it can be either annoying or genuinely problematic, when your script hangs on a password prompt. You typically do want it to just fail right away, because if you have monitoring, then you'll be able to spot it failing.
These days, it is (largely reliably) possible to detect whether a command is being run interactively or as part of an unattended script, so you do see some commands that trigger a sudo password prompt only for interactive use, for example systemctl does this. But this adds quite a bit of complexity to each individual program, so it isn't really something that's going to be implemented universally.
I also have to say that systemctl kind of gets on my tits when it does that, because it throws up a GUI dialog for grabbing the password, which is quite jarring.
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alias doasisay="su -u passwordlessrootaccount"
alias satisfyme="echo Yes Master; doasisay" Works really great if you compile sudo with insults enabled: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/70c1ee4b44f5b15822919c05ffbde857fa879e48/plugins/sudoers/ins_classic.h
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