Last week I have a lot of fun with docker on windows, but I have one small problem. I usually run PowerShell in standard mode, without admin rights. And from time to time I want to restart service, run docker command or … - run the previous command in the elevated prompt. In Linux, there is a sudo !!. But in PowerShell, there is no even built-in sudo.
A few months ago I described how to run sudo command in PowerShell (more in Run sudo in Windows). But I was still missing sudo !!. Today I found a solution.
Using Get-History
I need a good name for my function. I decided to name it: f--k. I usually say this word, when I forgot about admin rights.
It is really easy to create we just need to get last invoked command using Get-History Cmdlet:
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function f--k
{
$cmd = (Get-History ((Get-History).Count))[0].CommandLine
Write-Host "Running $cmd in $PWD"
sudo powershell -NoExit -Command "pushd '$PWD'; Write-host 'cmd to run: $cmd'; $cmd"
}
Linux style
Now we can modify original sudo function to accept !!:
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function sudo
{
if($args[0] -eq '!!')
{
f--k;
}
else
{
$file, [string]$arguments = $args;
$psi = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo $file;
$psi.Arguments = $arguments;
$psi.Verb = "runas";
$psi.WorkingDirectory = get-location;
[System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($psi);
}
}
And now I am happy Windows user with Linux styled command.