Not necessarily how it's "supposed" to be pronounced, what do you say? (in your head or aloud)
How do you pronounce sudo
?
Discuss: Were you ever taught this by anyone? Have you thought about this much?
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Top comments (126)
Neither, I've aliased
sudo
toplease
.I aliased it to
fucking
.In case you use zsh...
github.com/nvbn/thefuck
please remove recursively and force it irreversibly
Okay, we need a shell framework for rhyming command aliases.
That's now on my to-do list 🥰
You mean "too-doo" or "too-dough", :-) ?
I love this!
How did you do that?
I added this to my
.bashrc
file:thx
alias please="sudo "
in your .bash_profilesudo as in s-u-d-o (Spanish pronunciation). It means literally "I sweat".
sudo rm -rf
I sweat as I remove all files from my file system
Came here expecting this, I'm satisfied with the internet once again.
In italian too 😂
Latin, too.
idem
This
That's a good one 😂
Necessito a usar eso con mi compañeros.
obligatory xkcd
Sudo like sudowoodo
came here to post the same 💚
Sudowoodo is life 💚
SUDOWOODO shake shake shake shake shake shake
I was hoping to see this in the comments! :D
Man so did I! 😂
ssu-ssu-ssudio
Phil Collins taught us long ago...
I pronounce it as "please" 🤗
That’s good 🙂
I've added the following alias
So now,
Source twitter.com/zzaaho/status/11608251...
The previous command can be found in !!
If only there were a way to change 'permission denied' to 'ask nicely'!
I can say that I've successfully wasted an hour looking to see if this was possible!
Sue Doe sounds like a lovely lady.
Sister of Jon though.
You are right. Would like to meet her some day. Somehow I think, I would do everything she tells me to do.
That Sue Doe
Habitually like the US English pronunciation of 'pseudo'.
When actually explaining the command to people though, I pronounce it as three syllables, spelling out the first two letters and pronouncing the last two just like the English word 'do', because that's how it breaks down as an acronym (short for 'Switch User and DO', derived from
su
for 'Switch User').linux and MacOSX
man su
say "substitute user" (though "switch" seems to make more sense). but i'm pretty sure that in the old days it was "superuser", which is the default user to switch to.It's ambiguous in the original manual (page 17 of bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/man13.pdf, which is a scanned version of the original Version 1 UNIX manual), which does mention becoming 'super-user', but only once and not as the command name. I'm a bit too lazy to figure out when it changed from switching to UID 0 to being able to switch to any user, as that's likely to be the first place it's mentioned as switch or substitute.
All I've ever heard people say when talking about it is 'switch' though, probably because that's the mental flow for most people.
I thought it was short for "Super User Do"? 🤔
I've heard people say that, but it's pretty well established that
sudo
is derived from the old UNIXsu
command, which is definitely 'switch user'. It just happens that both have the root user as the default user to when a specific user isn't specified and that's the common case, but there's nothing that prevents you from using it to switch to any user (and by default, the root user can usesudo
to do so without needing a password).No, it's not. It's from su command "switch user". Also check the man page that says "sudo, sudoedit — execute a command as another user".
Useful after a tough day
Is this reddit, yet?
I've never aliased sudo but i always alias python to pythong because I can never type that right
Pseudo. I always took it as being a pseudo-superuser if your user account has sudo permission. Also, the two vowels used are different so it feels more natural (to me) to use different sounds between the syllables. I heard it pronounced "pseudo" for years before I heard some random video on the internet pronounce it as "doo". I just took it as that person not knowing any better and felt bad for them. But I guess it is possible that my pronunciation has been wrong or that popular opinion can change what is "right". (Look at gif, where most of the internet disagrees with the creator of the format on pronunciation.)
The "please" meme is kinda funny, but in my mind it builds the wrong mental model of what sudo is for. It is a protection from making mistakes, a design feature to isolate user-level from system-level changes. Not courtesy. Well anyway, I guess there's nothing wrong with having fun with it as long as you know it's actual purpose.
No, it's not superuser actually. It's from su command "switch user". Also check the man page that says "sudo, sudoedit — execute a command as another user". That means not necessary superuser.
You are right, the commands are named for "switch user" not "super user". However, I still think of it as pseudo superuser because that is the default user that you switch to with
su
orsudo
and is the way I use it 99% of the time. And "psuedo" also resonates really well withsudo
because you aren't fully switching to the other user to execute the command like you do withsu
. (Still shows up in original user's command history, etc.)I use soo-doo because it is the compilation of the phonetics from the command's unabbreviated form:
superuser do
Non-native speaker here, asking just out of curiosity: if phonetic (assuming English) why isn’t that syou-doo ?🙈
You're totally right. It should be:
superuser do
I just looked it up and "superuser" is one word. I'll correct my original post.
Also, as a native English speaker, I'm sorry the language is so weird.
Totally that is what we day ”syou-do” because it's superuser do.
No, it's not superuser do. It's from su command "switch user". Also check the man page that says "sudo, sudoedit — execute a command as another user".
I very often slip and type (and pronounce)
sudo
as sagi.It's because I aliased
sudo apt-get install
tosagi
and it's my most used Linux command.This is so cool!
soo-DO IT MOTHER TRUCKER.
Depends on the context. I pronounce it su-dont if followed by rm -rf