<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Kula <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kula@tproa.net">kula@tproa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:04:54AM -0600, Matthew Nuzum wrote:<br>
><br>
> What's the simplest, shortest, easiest to perform, whatever way to<br>
> repeat the last command but with sudo in front of it?<br>
> currently I up arrow, ctrl + a then type sudo [space] [enter].<br>
> It seems like something so common should have a keyboard shortcut.<br>
<br>
</div>I tend to do:<br>
<br>
$ command_i_should_have_ran_with_sudo (grumble when I don't remember to use sudo)<br>
$ sudo !!<br>
<br>
See if your shell has "!!", or the equivalent (I appear to have<br>
it on bash on one machine here, and tcsh on another).<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Ah, it works! That's a good tip, thanks!<br><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>