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I have a few "idiot aliases" like that...

  alias grpe=grep
  alias gerp=grep

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> grpe

Every. Single. Time. Sometimes I even typo it many times in a row.

There must be //something// in that combination of letters, because I don't recall ever having that many mistakes with any other commands.

I think that many of my typos occur when switching between letters on one hand vs the other. I figure it's a brain hemisphere synchronization thing.

    alias gti='/usr/local/bin/git'
    alias gut='/usr/local/bin/git'

My personal favorite is:

   alias fuck='sudo $(fc -nl -1)'

Be very careful with this.

What about the actual program thefuck? It can fix more than just sudo, and asks you to confirm

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

I don't want to be asked and I don't want to install anything.

I looked at thefuck but it didn't seem to do anything I needed.

Or make history work for you:

  shopt -s histverify histreedit

Bash will let you then confirm the actual command it's going to run:

  sudo !!

I use zsh and I don't know what shopt is. That's two commands and !! doesn't work in aliases.

So why not just type 'sudo !!' ?

Because it isn't as much fun.

In zsh it is called setopt. You don't need to make an alias, you would put this in your .bashrc

Here's one of my aliases for you:

    function fuckgit
        rm -rf /tmp/fuckgit/
        git clone --no-checkout (git config --get remote.origin.url) /tmp/fuckgit/
        rm -rf .git/
        mv /tmp/fuckgit/.git .
        rm -rf /tmp/fuckgit/
    end

I think you can try this. https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

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