!! tells bash “repeat the last command I entered.”  How is this useful? I can’t tell you how many times I have received the error “Operation not permitted” while chmoding something. So instead of retyping the command as superuser, I can just type “sudo !!”.  This will run the previous sodoed

references
http://www.deadman.org/bash.html

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