This might be a stupid question, but hear me out.
I regularly document steps to install various software for myself on my wiki
More recently, I managed to use different custom text in the source markdown to prepend and $ automatically, so commands can be copied more easily while still clarifying if it should be run as a normal user or as root.
Run command as user
$ some cool command
Run command as root/superuser with sudo
# some dangerous command
I usually remove and sudo and use the # prefix. However, in some cases, the sudo actually does something different that needs to be highlighted. For example, I might use it to execute a command as the user www-
sudo -u www-data cp /var/www/html/html1 /var/www/html/html2
I often use $ as a prefix, but would also make sense.
How would you prefix that line?
So $ sudo in general any time I need to run something as root?
I’ll have to think about that some more. I think I rather dislike “forcing” sudo on all commands as root.
Ok, maybe I misunderstood your question. I though you were proposing instead of $ sudo and I meant to say that being explicit is better.
I typed the post in a minute and published, so it definitely isn’t the most coherent or well thought out post.
I’m currently using for commands executed by the root user or sudo.
Currently, I only use sudo if the command depends on one of its features. Like the example above where I execute a command as the www- user.
My dilemma was whether to use $ sudo or for those few cases. But based on yours and other comments, it might make sense to use $ sudo for commands executed as root as well.
