No I’m not excited about sudo, well I sorta am. I have run into situations where I typed a long command and forgot to type sudo. This is a huge problem when you can’t hit the home key and go to the start of the command, which happens in a lot of SSH tools.

The Fix!!!

sudo !!

Typing that will execute the last command, but it will execute it as if you had typed sudo at the beginning. This is a huge time saver.

Similar to the double bang trick is bang+asterisk. This combinations takes just the parameters from the previous command.

[user@host ~]$ ls /home
user
[user@host ~]$ cd !*
cd /home
[user@host home]$ 

Enjoy!

I have noticed a few people have been commenting on their development environments and wanted to chime in on what I use when I am consulting or working on a personal project.

Internet Based:

• Dropbox – This application allows me to share files between all of my platforms. It works very similar to how subversion works, but commits the files automatically after they have been added to the directory. They are stored encrypted on the Dropbox servers so the information is safe from prying eyes.
• Twitter – I never got the whole twitter thing for a long time, but it is nice to know what my friends are up to.
• Facebook – Probably the only decent social networking site out there
• LinkedIn – Business social networking.
• del.icio.us – Social bookmarking.
• Pownce – Similar to twitter, but does more for media sharing.

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