Have a look at zsh, you can execute your current command as root quite easy. Put sudo-command-line() { [[ -z $BUFFER ]] && zle up-history [[ $BUF

Have a look at zsh, you can execute your current command as root quite easy. Put sudo-command-line() { [[ -z $BUFFER ]] && zle up-history [[ $BUFFER != sudo\ * ]] && BUFFER="sudo $BUFFER" } zle -N sudo-command-line bindkey "^Os" sudo-command-line into your zshrc, enter the command and press ctrl+o s et voila ;0 For more cool stuff regarding zsh have a look at http://grml.org/zsh/ http://grml.org/zsh/ or for other nice keybindings http://grml.org/zsh/grmlzshrc.html http://grml.org/zsh/grmlzshrc.html