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    Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 19 Sep 2013

    starting a new relationship with my laptop: new alias please='sudo'. Now I can "please rm $file"; feels great!

    5:55 PM - 19 Sep 2013
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      2. François Baldassari‏ @baldassarifr 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @starsandrobots @qrs

        I wonder what it would take to change “access denied” dialogs to say “what’s the magic word?”

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      3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 3 Jul 2017
        Replying to @baldassarifr @qrs

        a hex editor 😅

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      2. John Wards‏ @johnwards 20 Sep 2013
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots next get it to ask for the magic word...

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      3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 20 Sep 2013
        Replying to @johnwards

        @johnwards it does that already after a fashion, but I see how naming it so would be amusing :)

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      2. in4sec‏ @In4Security 17 Jun 2016
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        🤔 please kill -9 <PID> 🤔

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      3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 17 Jun 2016
        Replying to @In4Security

        yeah :)

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      2. Zaki Manian‏ @zmanian 17 Jun 2016
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        How did this work out? Is it still your sudo alias?

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      3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 17 Jun 2016
        Replying to @zmanian

        yes and in many places!

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      2. Jeremy Dunck‏ @jdunck 7 Oct 2013
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots mkdir ~/bin && ln -s /usr/bin/man /Users/jdunck/bin/woman

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      3. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 7 Oct 2013
        Replying to @jdunck

        @jdunck hm - wouldn't you also need to add ~/bin to your path? Seems like that'd be better suited to a bash alias as well.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Jeremy Dunck‏ @jdunck 7 Oct 2013
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots sure, I already have a ~/bin, though. :)

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      1. Bob Coggeshall‏ @BobCoggeshall 20 Sep 2013
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots Maybe when Cliff and I created sudo we should have named it that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo 

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      2. Christopher Gerber‏ @ThatGerber 13 Mar 2015
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots @markjaquith Should alias "sudo !!" instead. Then when it's like "No permission" you can just say please to rerun as sudo

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      1. You and 52 others‏ @kragen 19 Sep 2013
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots For a long time I had this in .bashrc: please() { "$@" }

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      2. ᴉʞsuɐɹǝZ͋̑̋͂̆̓̅̈́͐̃͆̆̃̈́́̈́̿̃̏̀̀̈̑̓̌͊ ǝoſ‏ @MadSc13ntist 13 Mar 2015
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots @thegrugq alias doh="sudo !!"

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      3. the grugq‏ @thegrugq 13 Mar 2015
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        the grugq Retweeted the grugq

        @MadSc13ntist @starsandrobotshttps://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/546206036063825920 …

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        alias scpresume="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh" alias fuck='sudo $(fc -ln -1)'
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      1. Jacob White‏ @JacobEthanWhite 19 Sep 2013
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots "fucking=sudo"

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      1. Matthew Schinckel‏ @schinckel 20 Sep 2013
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        @starsandrobots @janl I’m going the other way. “Sudo go to bed now little man”

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      1. Mr. Sharumpe‏ @sharumpe 19 Sep 2013
        Replying to @starsandrobots

        Genius, and so polite! “@starsandrobots: starting a new relationship with my laptop: new alias please='sudo'. Now I can "please rm $file";”

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