I think they mean mute the mic, do the actual sudo then unmute. A proof of concept script that I have hacked together from some other things I have (untested b

I think they mean mute the mic, do the actual sudo then unmute. A proof of concept script that I have hacked together from some other things I have (untested because I'm on my mac not my linux laptop atm) would look like this for linux #!/bin/bash set -euo pipefail #Get current mute status SINK=$( pactl list sinks | sed 's/Sink #//;q' ) current_pa=$(pactl list sinks | awk '/Mute/{print $2}' ) current_cap=$(amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch' | awk -F= '/: values/{print $2}') #mute it pactl set-sink-mute "${SINK}" 1 amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch' off,off > /dev/null /usr/bin/sudo "$@" #put it back the way it was before pactl set-sink-mute "${SINK}" $current_pa amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch' "$current_cap" > /dev/null I think you might only need the amixer part to mute the mic but I'm muting the speaker as well with pactl.