The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command

<p><pre><code> [~user&#x2F;]$ rm -rf &#x2F; rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `&#x2F;&#x27; rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe [~user&#x2F;]$ fuck sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root &#x2F; </code></pre> <i>fuck!</i>

I use this regularly, for everything ranging from the forgotten sudo (instead of running &quot;sudo !!&quot;) to typos across the board.<p>But it does get me into interesting situations! Just the other day I was demo-ing something to my team + Director of Engg on the projector, and I ran an incorrect command, followed by &quot;fuck&quot; to fix it, leading to so many stares :P<p>Just as an FYI, you can change the prompt from fuck to something else by changing your .bashrc eg.:<p><pre><code> eval &quot;$(thefuck-alias fixit)&quot; </code></pre> I&#x27;m not changing my alias though! ;)

I often set `alias fucking=&#x27;sudo&#x27;`.<p><pre><code> &gt;$ make me a sandwich permission denied &gt;$ fucking make me a sandwich [or] &gt;$ fucking !!</code></pre>

Previously discussed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9396116" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9396116</a>.

If you mistype <i>fuck</i>, does it properly recurse up the <i>fuck</i> chain?

Another step towards the Anti-Mac user interface.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nngroup.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;anti-mac-interface&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nngroup.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;anti-mac-interface&#x2F;</a>

Would be nice to have some form of autocorrect directly in the shell, especially if it was aware of common programs and so could also autocorrect options. Obviously we could think of a few cases with destructive outcomes--but that doesn&#x27;t make it a bad feature.<p>git stauts<p>I mean, git knows enough to ask me &quot;Did you mean this? status&quot;.

This will definitely help some co workers who aren&#x27;t CLI-savvy and always tell me their commands &quot;didn&#x27;t work&quot;.

An oldie that has been passed around in various incarnations since the 2000s is an alias also called fuck which repeats the last command with sudo. Either coincidence or perhaps it could be where the inspiration for this project came from.<p><pre><code> alias fuck=&#x27;sudo $(history -p \!\!)&#x27;</code></pre>

Didn&#x27;t this appear on Hacker News years ago? I have been using it since and absolutely love it!

My favorite shell typo: dicker instead of docker. More funny if you speak German :)

Love it, have thought about it, but my one concern always is that it&#x27;ll lead to a decrease in my typing skills instead of reinforcing good keying. But fuck, I just need to get stuff done sometimes.

Is this any easier though than the using the carat style previous command substitution?<p><pre><code> ^bar^baz </code></pre> Although I think the name might be more descriptive.

This is wonderful.

Every day:<p>$ git pish<p>$ fuck

Now do ffmpeg! (Seriously I would pay for autocomplete ffmpeg cmd line options)

This seems fairly similar to the command auto-correction in Oh My Zsh.

I use this app SO MUCH and recommend it to everyone. Great work!

What if I misspell the word &quot;fuck&quot;?

cursing is now provably productive

It&#x27;s a nice utility. But I stopped using it because it keeps messing up my bash history.

+1 for not being PC