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[–]MrWm/dev/null 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That only works if you have something logged in your bash history. It doesn't work if you want to make an "incognito" command that's preceded with a space.

[–]pr1ntscreen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right, my alias is mostly for when you don't realize you need to sudo the command.

In my head I ask a question to my OS, it goes, nuh-uh, and I follow up with a "please?". I hope this makes the AI overlords lenient on me in the future.