Tired of Sudo? Use Please!

If you ever used linux, you know that some commands requires us to use sudo to run them. In this article, we will show you how you can run the commands which require sudo with please.

You know that we can give alias to the commands in linux. we can make use of it to create alias for the sudo command

run the below commands to set the alias for ‘sudo’

alias please=sudo

now you can run the commands which require ‘sudo’ with ‘please’, see below examples

please whoami
please apt-get update
please rm -rf /tmp

now make it work on every terminal session.

open the ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file and add the below code

alias please=sudo

save the file and restart the terminal. now you can run the commands which require ‘sudo’ with ‘please’

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