Talk:149: Sandwich

Note that it is more effective to write "sudo !!" to redo the last command but with sudo added to it. -- Agge.se (talk) 13:16, 29 October 2012 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Using sudo !! outputs the previous command with sudo into your bash (other shells as well) history, so to bash what you said was "sudo make me a sandwich" not "sudo !!". lcarsos (talk) 16:46, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

sudo requires user password, not admin password, but you need to be in sudoers file. --JakubNarebski (talk) 12:14, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

How many people will know the difference? In a typical Ubuntu-family install with only one human user, root doesn't have a password, but the one user who does is a sudoer (and has to use sudo or su to act as root, rather than doing so starting at login). Promethean (talk) 06:08, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

"the user first must type their password" This is not accurate. It is the default, but many domains disable that requirement. 173.245.52.92 06:47, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

I believe the original comic actually read "Sudo bang bang" instead of "Sudo make me a sandwich". Here's a link to what I think is a copy of the original. I'm not sure which of the two is actually the original. ‎99.95.158.248 (talk) 06:24, 9 September 2013 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

The words "bang bang" (particularly the first B) look a bit fuzzy/pixelated compared to the rest of the text, which gives me the feeling that it was edited from this one, which is the original. Zowayix (talk) 23:03, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

If you click on the image (on the Stack Overflow link), it leads you to http://justinsomnia.org/2006/09/sudo-bang-bang/, which says: 'This just occurred to me' [comic] 'Original comic from xkcd by Randall Munroe', implying it was indeed edited. 141.101.99.14 20:42, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Also, Randall doesn't make his Gs like that. You can see in the strip immediately previous. 108.162.237.4 05:16, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

On a different, but totally related note: Here you can find an aptly named little program with which the charming conversation would be: "Make me a sandwich." - "What? Make it yourself." - "Fuck." - "Okay." 162.158.85.135 08:24, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Comment: This conversation is an easter egg in Google Now on Android tablet. Using voice search to say "make me a sandwich" will give the reply "what? make it yourself", adding "sudo" will get the response "ok". I assume the Google now implementation came later and is based on xkcd. 141.101.99.27 (talk) 22:25, 20 February 2014 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Sadly, it doesn't exist in the new Google Assistant. 162.158.158.196 (talk) 07:52, 10 October 2021 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Siri will also respond "okay" if you say "sudo make me a sandwich:", though she doesn't respond with the XKCD response to "make me a sandwich". 198.41.235.35 13:32, 27 October 2015 (UTC) (MSC)

This reworked for the Make utility:

$ make sandwich
Must be root
$ sudo make sandwich
cc sandwich
mv sandwich /etc/sandwich
sandwich installed in /etc
$ _

Alexbuzzbee (talk) 02:50, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

• It also reminds me the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Q tampered with the ship's replicators:

Janeway: "Coffee, black."

Replicator: "Make it yourself."

(But she didn't try "Sudo coffee, black.") - Mike Rosoft (talk) 18:14, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

• This forfells the advent of Alexa and the other personal home assistants. 162.158.155.50 20:19, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

• I wonder whether Cueball pronounces "sudo" the right way (because surely he knows the right way) or the wrong way (engaging his hobby, or matching the expectations of the friend.) 172.68.142.89 16:04, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

If the pronunciation of sudo is "soo doo" (because "do" is a word), then should it actually be pronounced "ess yoo doo" — pronouncing "s" and "u" separately (because "su" is an initialism of "super user"/"substitute user")? (Is the su command pronounced "soo" or "ess yoo"?) -- Yfmcpxpj (talk) 14:30, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

could this also be citing the fact that the sudo project's logo is a sandwich? me, hi (talk) 13:53, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

No. It's actually the exact opposite way round. 92.23.2.228 19:12, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

cueball gets turnedinto sandwich by his freind 76.22.85.181 22:18, 30 April 2026 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)