How do *you* pronounce sudo?
Ben Halpern
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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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Neither, I've aliased
sudotoplease.please kill meYeaaaah, sounds about right.
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
for me it's pyhton. :p
please remove recursively and force it irreversibly
Okay, we need a shell framework for rhyming command aliases.
I aliased it to
fucking.In case you use zsh...
github.com/nvbn/thefuck
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
.bashrcfile: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 😂
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 🙂
Sue Doe sounds like a lovely lady.
Sister of Jon though.
That Sue Doe
You are right. Would like to meet her some day. Somehow I think, I would do everything she tells me to do.
"Sudo ~ Pseudo" Actually it's supposed to be pronounced /so͞o′dō/
But I pronounce it /Ssu~ Doh!-/
But I guess I would choose "soo-dough" since it's the closest...
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
sufor 'Switch User').I thought it was short for "Super User Do"? 🤔
I've heard people say that, but it's pretty well established that
sudois derived from the old UNIXsucommand, 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 usesudoto 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".
I've added the following alias
So now,
Source twitter.com/zzaaho/status/11608251...
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!
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
suorsudoand is the way I use it 99% of the time. And "psuedo" also resonates really well withsudobecause 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".
Depends on the context. I pronounce it su-dont if followed by rm -rf
soo-DO IT MOTHER TRUCKER.
I very often slip and type (and pronounce)
sudoas sagi.It's because I aliased
sudo apt-get installtosagiand it's my most used Linux command.This is so cool!
How about man pages are required to also include the intended pronunciation including IPA key? That would be fun :)
This would also settle stuff like "awk", "chroot", or "nginx"...
Like sudowoodo!
I normally pronounce it "sudoh".
But as I was reading this poll, somehow in my mind I pronounced it funny in a Japanese way like "suuuuzdooo" (imagine a Japanese anime voice) 🤣
Kids have Play-Doh.
Adults have Su-Doh.
I've tried to "correct" myself and start saying "soo-doo", but I keep doing back to the dough. I think it's because of the Simpsons influence ("duh-oh! Soo dough bang bang'), or maybe because dough rhymes with go.
I always pronounced it as "soo-dough".. until I realized "soo-doo" is more appropriate as it conveys "do as a super user". I am surprised soo-dough scored so much higher!
Maybe it's su--
Was this posted, previously, as a different type of post? Could swear I'd already commented on a similar post a week or so ago.
I wonder how many people intentionally butcher the pronunciation of something just to mess with people (or otherwise to see how many people they can convince, "no, this is the right way,").
Like "judo"
In our country everybody pronounces sudo like judo :)
It is funny for everybody else, but it is how it is here :)
In hungarian language "s" is pronounced as "sh" (and "sz" is "s"), so I say it like "shudo" :D
as I think that
sudois a abreviation fromSuper User DoI read as normal DoIt's dough that you sue :)
sue dough
Am I the only one that didn't know there was another way to pronounce this? I feel a bit silly 😅
Su-doo-doo 💩
I imagine I was taught by my first CS professor and she had a VERY strong accent. It took me far too long to realize "struct trees" were actually "structures". 😂
This is like 'gif' vs 'jif'. I know it stands for super-user-do but here, the "right" answer is wrong.
Neither.
soodoh
Phonetically it's [suˈdo]
Accidentally, "sudo" in Italian means "I sweat". Puns usually ensue.
The same as pseudo
Dough drags it out too long. But it's that sound.
Like the amaracan colour to color, in programming we all need to stick to conventions regardless of correctness. Besides soo-doo is almost a pokomon woo-doo
I have always said su-do as in "Super User, Do x)
Sue-dough
I pronounce sudo the correct way.
Sew doh
Fight me.
Sue-doh... Like Pseudo.
sudo like judo like you know
In 1985 I used to wear suits like this, dance around, and this is how I used to pronounced it then. ;)
youtu.be/r0qBaBb1Y-U?t=71
ahhhh is ahhh ... soo-dough ... sue-dough cough
"Sudo Alexa make me a sandwich"
Just follows naturally from my language's pronunciation of vowels
Like sumo (well, with the d instead of the m, needless to say...)
My first language is French, which may impact how I pronounce "non words" like that one...
Haha, me too. I am Czech btw.
I'm french, so I pronounce it with the french accent : fromtexttospeech.com/output/090898...
I pronounce it like almost the same pronunciation for pseudo.
"Sooo-dough" ... never thought about it, it just seems the natural way to pronounce it if you see it as "just" a word without any connotation to "su" or "do".
Very well, that's a good question. I usually use the Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation, so I think it's more like "soo-dough"
embarassed to admit i call it "soo doo"
Sue doo
SUH DO