[Cialug] repeat w/ sudo

[Thomas Kula]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:04:54AM -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> 
>    What's  the  simplest,  shortest,  easiest to perform, whatever way to
>    repeat the last command but with sudo in front of it?
>    currently I up arrow, ctrl + a then type sudo [space] [enter].
>    It seems like something so common should have a keyboard shortcut.

I tend to do:

 $ command_i_should_have_ran_with_sudo (grumble when I don't remember to use sudo)
 $ sudo !!

See if your shell has "!!", or the equivalent (I appear to have
it on bash on one machine here, and tcsh on another).

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