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[ILUG] Silly bash Q

[ILUG] Silly bash Q

Niall O Broin niall at magicgoeshere.com
Sun Feb 11 20:00:23 GMT 2001


On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 06:31:19PM -0000, JustinMacCarthy wrote:
> suppose I try to un a command that requires su permissions. is there a way
> to do something like
> 
> $ su -c `!!`
> 
>  or something to run the previous command , instead of typing it again?
> 

su -c "!!"

will work, but setup sudo on your machine, and you can simply do

sudo !!

and if you setup sudo correctly, you can avoid being asked for a password,
which is perfectly acceptable on a personal machine.




Regards,



Niall




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