Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Sudo Make Me A Sandwich

Posted in Code, Humour by Elliott Back on September 3rd, 2006.

For all the people that couldn’t see this link by itself, I’m surrounding with a large mountain of text. Yep, the original image is a comic from XKCD, which has a pretty liberal CC license that says “hey link to me plz,” so here is the link that has always been here:

Sudo Make Me A Sandwich

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26 Responses to “Sudo Make Me A Sandwich”

  1. Damn, I’m a nerd because that one got a few chuckles out of me.

  2. Sinju says:

    I started using sudo after I got tired of typing in a huge command hitting enter and it saying you must be root to do this then su ing into root and then you can’t hit the uparrow for the command again so you have to retype it all… now its just up arrow, home, sudo :D

  3. Anna says:

    That is MOST excellent :)

    The wives understand this stuff, and I am sure she was a little excited for you.

  4. [...] Sudo Make Me a Sandwich [...]

  5. Chris Blank says:

    Only One word: LoL

  6. Chuckia Norris says:

    Call me stupid and a nidjit, but I don’t get this…

  7. FzySqrl says:

    Chuckia Norris,

    Check out sudo on wikipedia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo

  8. Joe says:

    sudo make me a sandwich | grep -v cilantro

  9. Daniel Andersson says:

    “Sinju said:

    on September 5th, 2006 at 3:17 pm

    I started using sudo after I got tired of typing in a huge command hitting enter and it saying you must be root to do this then su ing into root and then you can’t hit the uparrow for the command again so you have to retype it all… now its just up arrow, home, sud”

    Just FYI, you can also, after running the command you needed to do as superuser, just type in:
    sudo !!
    !! will then add on the previously used command with the sudo before.

    Cheers!

  10. nic stage says:

    thanks for this. it made my day. :)

  11. Unix Geek Joke…

    Unix geeks will appreciate this: Blatantly stolen from here. Thanks Greg for the link…….

  12. wayne says:

    Yes. Xkcd over at xkcd.com is a fine comic.

    http://www.xkcd.com/c149.html

    You might want to have a look at this too:

    http://www.xkcd.com/license.html

  13. AusIV says:

    Great. Now there is a sandwich. But it’s not your sandwich, it’s root’s sandwich. Are you really going to steal root’s lunch?

  14. [...] Overall he fit in with the theme of the conference really well and provided much food for thought. One of my favourite moments was Corey trying to explain this comic to the room without actually showing an image. [...]

  15. Sam says:

    Way to steal content, *******.

  16. Elliott Back says:

    Hey Sam, check out the license–"This means you’re free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them)."

  17. Sam says:

    Ooops. My bad. Sorry bout the whole ******* thing.

  18. Matt says:

    This is hilarious. I gave you credit in my blog at http://life.red-icculus.com/?p=6

  19. Achim says:

    That is MOST excellent

  20. Cygal says:

    Elliot > As long as you tell people where they’re from.

  21. whatever says:

    from xkcd:
    Creative Commons License
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

    This means that you are free to copy and reuse any of my drawings (noncommercially) as long as you tell people where they’re from.

    so how about putting a link to the original under the image?

  22. Elliott Back says:

    The link is above the image?

  23. Tyler says:

    Humourous, but i still think it would be funnier if it was “Sudo GET me a sanwhich”….or sudo apt..

  24. hugeoid says:

    Until recently I wouldn’t have got it at all. Lately I’ve necessarily become a sudo guru and when I saw this I nearly shat myself.

    For the layman, think of sudo as the Imperius Curse (well described in wikipedia: Spells_in_Harry_Potter).

    i.e. “Imperio make me a sandwich”

    or perhaps:

    Harry: Leave me alone!
    Voldemort: MWA-HAHAHA!! CRUCIO!
    Harry: sudo Leave me alone!
    Voldemort: Oh. Alright then.

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