I often forget to run a command with sudo, so I find myself often typing
sudo !!immediately afterwards.I tried aliasing this, but bash chokes on the
!!part. Is there some way to represent this shortcut within an alias?
Solution:
AIUI the problem is that history substitutions (!!) are done before alias substitution. I haven’t tested this thoroughly, but it looks like fc can be used to get what you want:
alias sudothat='eval "sudo $(fc -ln -1)"'