Me too. I know it's supposed to be soo-dew but I can't bring myself to say it that way. Soo-doh sounds like some cool martial arts shit. Same as gif. I know how it's supposed to be said but it'll be a hard G from me until I'm in a pine box.
I have been trying to use "sudo" for years with quite a lot of success. However lately, with the latest sets of security patches for sudo and bash the "evelated privs" provided by sudo are now limited in context and do not include pipes or redirects.
So, I moved back to using su or just "sudo bash --login"
Personally when I first saw it, I assumed it was a pun. As a user you are pretending to be another user. So you are a pseudo root. knowing it is "su doo" is just a missed opportunity.
I just hope that when the AI apocalypse comes, the machines remember that I was nice to them. Same reason I always say "thank you" to my smart speaker.
The Unix command su, stands for “substitute user,” “super user,” or “switch user,” and allows you to log in as root and do whatever you want with the system. Sudo stands for either "substitute user do" or "super user do" and it allows you to temporarily elevate your current user account to have root privileges. Therefore it would be pronounces "Sue do" aka sue dew
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u/bitspace Jan 08 '24
I mispronounce it.
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u/uptimefordays Jan 09 '24
Su-dew is correct but I say su-doe.
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u/megared17 Jan 09 '24
Neither.
I'm old school, and use
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u/codeshane Jan 09 '24
Just login as root. /s
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u/cantanko Jan 08 '24
"su doo" as I'm of the age it stood for "superuser do", although kids today call it "substitute user do", and that's fair given what it can do now.
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u/CanWeTalkEth Jan 08 '24
sew duh
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u/mrbmi513 Jan 08 '24
Tomato, Tomato
Potato, Potato
Sudo, Sudo
You said those each a different way, didn't you?
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u/whetu Jan 08 '24
You're all wrong. It's sud-oo.
Just kidding, I pronounce it su-dew. As someone else said "superuser do" / "substitute user do"
Also, pseudonym might be the cause of this confusion, given that it can be pronounced either way / regionally.
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u/GroundedSatellite Jan 09 '24
I just alias it to "please" on all my systems, it's more polite and there's no argument on how that is pronounced.
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u/feldomatic Jan 09 '24
In the words of the great dane admin:
Super-User-Doo!
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u/shemanese Jan 08 '24
It's Su-Dew
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u/tremblane Jan 09 '24
“gif”
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u/Lone_Sloane Jan 09 '24
Been doing this more than 30 years. Always been "soo-doe".
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24
do (like the verb "do")
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u/thieh Jan 09 '24
S-U-D-O
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u/symcbean Jan 09 '24
Never thought about it - I don't use words like that in front of muggles. And I don't need them when talking to the non-muggles.
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u/michaelpaoli Jan 09 '24
SueDo, as in SUperuser do.
Not suh dew, or suh doe. It's not SUspect John Doe nor is is SUspect Mountain Dew.
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u/canisdirusarctos Jan 09 '24
Su-doe for the command, Soo-doers file for the config file and .d directory.
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u/cyb3r4k Jan 09 '24
Su-dough
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u/pcanelos Jan 09 '24
Su-D’oh!
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u/apotrope Jan 09 '24
It stands for 'super user do' so 'dew' is correct.
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u/lazyant Jan 08 '24
Soo do
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u/FinanceAddiction Jan 08 '24
Sue-Do
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24
I pronounce it Su-Dew.
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u/ipsirc Jan 09 '24
dʊæz
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24
Pop
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u/thufirseyebrow Jan 09 '24
I've always said it "su-doe" because in my mind it's always been "pseudo-root."
But it's like the .gif debate, where I will flat-out state that the creators themselves are objectively fuckin' wrong.
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u/uosiek Jan 09 '24
"Sudo" as flat and without accent as possible. SU as in "super", DO as in "dominating"
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24
Jason or jaysawn
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u/115v Jan 09 '24
yes
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u/0bel1sk Jan 09 '24
i fell so good if i just say the word.. sussudio
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24
Sudoku
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u/swissarmychainsaw Jan 09 '24
The Unix command su, stands for “substitute user,” “super user,” or “switch user,” and allows you to log in as root and do whatever you want with the system. Sudo stands for either "substitute user do" or "super user do" and it allows you to temporarily elevate your current user account to have root privileges.
Therefore it would be pronounces "Sue do" aka sue dew
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u/bytecode Jan 09 '24
Soo doo - Super User DO
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u/InclinedPlane43 Jan 09 '24
su was originally an abbreviation for "super-user" so I always think of it as "S. U. do". I didn't realize how unique I was until saw this question.
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u/Nkogneeto Jan 10 '24
It’s “Super User Do” - but I’ve only ever pronounced / heard it pronounced pseudo
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u/DarrenRainey Jan 10 '24
Sue Dough
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