How do *you* pronounce sudo?

Not necessarily how it's "supposed" to be pronounced, what do you say? (in your head or aloud)

How do you pronounce sudo?

• soo-dough
• soo-doo
• Just show me the results

Discuss: Were you ever taught this by anyone? Have you thought about this much?

P.S. Polls are still private admin features, but we'll make them general soon enough

Comments

[Avalander]

Neither, I've aliased sudo to please.

[Matt Moran]

I aliased it to fucking.

[Muhammad Arslan Aslam]

In case you use zsh...

github.com/nvbn/thefuck

[Rihan]

please remove recursively and force it irreversibly

[Oleksii Filonenko]

Okay, we need a shell framework for rhyming command aliases.

[Adam Crockett 🌀]

That's now on my to-do list 🥰

[nadeeminamdar]

You mean "too-doo" or "too-dough", :-) ?

[Ben Halpern]

I love this!

[Fulton Browne]

How did you do that?

[Avalander]

I added this to my .bashrc file:

alias please='sudo'

[Fulton Browne]

thx

[Stephanie Handsteiner]

alias please="sudo " in your .bash_profile

[Jaime González García]

sudo 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

[Nicolò Rebughini]

Came here expecting this, I'm satisfied with the internet once again.

[Tiash]

In italian too 😂

[Jason R Tibbetts]

Latin, too.

[Alesis Manzano]

idem

[Matteo Nunziati]

This

[Henry Williams]

That's a good one 😂

[🦄N B🛡]

Necessito a usar eso con mi compañeros.

[Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦]

obligatory xkcd

[Giuseppe Vetri]

Sudo like sudowoodo

[Arden de Raaij]

came here to post the same 💚

[Giuseppe Vetri]

Sudowoodo is life 💚

[Andrew Reese]

SUDOWOODO shake shake shake shake shake shake

[Alex Pedro]

I was hoping to see this in the comments! :D

[Stephen Chiang]

Man so did I! 😂

[Cécile Lebleu]

ssu-ssu-ssudio

[Fred Richards]

Phil Collins taught us long ago...

[Yechiel Kalmenson]

I pronounce it as "please" 🤗

Katerina Borodina

@kathyra_

protip: alias sudo to "please" for a much more wholesome unix experience

07:16 AM - 12 Aug 2019

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[Ben Halpern]

That’s good 🙂

[Sidhant Panda]

I've added the following alias

alias please='sudo $(fc -ln -1)'

So now,

~$ bash ./helloworld
bash: ./helloworld: permission denied
~$ please
Hello World!

Source twitter.com/zzaaho/status/11608251...

[Martin Wallgren]

The previous command can be found in !!

alias please='sudo !!'

[sgcdialler]

If only there were a way to change 'permission denied' to 'ask nicely'!

[Muhammad Arslan Aslam]

I can say that I've successfully wasted an hour looking to see if this was possible!

[Andrew Bone]

Sue Doe sounds like a lovely lady.

[Dan Conn]

Sister of Jon though.

[Lars Richter]

You are right. Would like to meet her some day. Somehow I think, I would do everything she tells me to do.

[Chad Hudson]

That Sue Doe

[Austin S. Hemmelgarn]

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').

[mARK bLOORE]

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.

[Austin S. Hemmelgarn]

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.

[Anton T]

I thought it was short for "Super User Do"? 🤔

[Austin S. Hemmelgarn]

I've heard people say that, but it's pretty well established that sudo is derived from the old UNIX su 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 use sudo to do so without needing a password).

[Josef Strzibny]

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".

[Avalander]

Useful after a tough day

[Smit Patel]

Is this reddit, yet?

[David Brewer]

I've never aliased sudo but i always alias python to pythong because I can never type that right