[mynewtb]

Don't blindly retry with sudo. I cannot imagine in which kind of environment you would use 'sudo !!' so much, that it becomes muscle memory.

That sounds too much like my colleagues' favorite way of ruining their windows systems: 'It did not work so I ran it again as administrator'.

[sethrin]

Well, I tend to assume that I'm not the only one who continually forgets to add 'sudo' in front of 'apt-get', or similarly that journalctl usually requires elevated privileges, or that I don't own the files I'm trying to chmod. I suspect that people who do recall such things perfectly are rare. As to muscle memory, well, probably my assumptions there are off. I've been using Linux exclusively both professionally and at home for more than ten years now, and I have a bad habit of coding at odd hours of the night. Other people may not have quite the same exposure or error rate.

I certainly wouldn't advocate blindly retrying; I only use 'sudo !!' when my shell tells me to. That unfortunately is pretty often :(