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The power of sudo compels you! (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Okay honest question, what does the # actually do? Every time I try and use it (fedora 42), it just doesn't run

[–] NoFood4u@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 hours ago

It's just a convention. commands starting with $ are meant to be executed by a user. commands starting with # are meant to be executed by root.

[–] aarch64@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

# indicates a comment in shell scripts, it's interpreted the same way on a command line. That's why it's doing nothing. In this case, the # isn't part of the command though. It's to indicate that it's a root shell. You'd see $ for a regular not-root shell. It's part of that bit of text with your username, hostname, and current directory (with most default shell configurations, look up the PS1 Bash variable) that comes before the command you're typing.