0149: "Sandwich"

[EradicateIV]

It feels good fully understanding this comic now.

Yay bash!

[DestinedCruz]

And I need that shirt, so very very very badly.[/img]

[dragonarcher8812]

(05:48:28 PM) DragonArcher: error dropping privileges: Operation not permitted
(05:49:31 PM) Vicks: put sudo in front of it.
(05:49:56 PM) DragonArcher: sudo make me a sandwich
(05:50:02 PM) DragonArcher: sorry, hahaha had to say it
(05:50:13 PM) Vicks: That was so fucking dead on.

Vicks = my brother. He was helping me fix Amarok, and we had this conversation over Gaim. I love him.

[blockmar]

There is an alternative ending to this comic, if you are a bit lazy.

A: Make me a sandwich
B: No
A: sudo Make me a sandwich
B: You are not in sudoers. This incident will be reported.

xkcd is my favorite comic - just love it when Google Reader indicates a new comic in the feed. Thanks!

[lachatte]

I feel all cool now that I got this joke, seeing as how many people didn't (and considering how many of the comics I don't quite get). I laughed way too long at this one. I was going to try using sudo on my husband to make him do something, but the opportunity didn't present itself quickly enough, so I broke down and just showed him the comic (which he also laughed at a lot).

[enk]

Could make for a fun bash history is you aliased 'please' to sudo.

Also, this comic is the epitome of win.

[tom333]

i had to find a definiton of sudo to get this one... im a windows-er and not all that great with computers, apart from being a user.... their still moderately black-box to me.... someone who also reads this told me to "pseudo make them a sandwich" ... and i was thinking "does that mean make you a fake sandwich? or a sandwich that is a demonstration of how sandwiches work or something??" it didnt make any sense... but he still seemed to find humour in it without understanding what the comic was about. i later explained the Super User do... thing to him... and he found it much funnier

['; DROP DATABASE;--]

Hah, I never even noticed sudo <--> pseudo. Nice.

Also, the correct answer, according to GCC:

make: *** No rule to make target `me'. Stop.

[e946]

I found this comic pasted up outside of one of the testbed doors in the CIS building at Argonne National Laboratory, along with a few others. I'd take a picture of it, but i'm pretty sure that's illegal.

[J Spade]

For the uninitiated: "sudo" is the Unix-style command for "execute this command as the superuser."

hence, SuperUser DO.

[Graham]

Yay I finally "get" this comic after my first encounter with Damn Small Linux - which promptly blank screened me after the boot process (no, not blank with a command prompt). I feel so much more enlightened now (I also now understand the killer toaster comic), and I'm sure I'll get it working sometime probably with the use of sudo

[ObsidianX]

I got bored... decided to code this in a few languages:

C: makemeasandwich.c

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void){
        char *my_user = getenv("USER");
        if(strcmp(my_user, "root") == 0)
                printf("Okay!\n");
        else
                printf("Make your own damn sandwich!\n");
        return 0;
}


Java: makemeasandwich.java

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class makemeasandwich {
        public static void main(String[] args){
                if(System.getProperty("user.name").compareTo("root") == 0)
                        System.out.println("Okay!");
                else
                        System.out.println("Make your own damn sandwich!");
        }
}


PHP: makemeasandwich.php

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#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php

if(getenv("USER") == "root")
        echo "Okay!\n";
else
        echo "Make your own damn sandwich!\n";

?>


Python: makemeasandwich.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import os

if os.geteuid() == 0:
        print "Okay!"
else:
        print "Make your own damn sandwich!"


Bash: makemeasandwich.sh

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#!/bin/bash

if [ `id -u` == 0 ] ; then
        echo "Okay!"
else
        echo "Make your own damn sandwich!"
fi


You can run all of these as a sudoer as such:

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$ ./makemeasandwich
Make your own damn sandwich!
$ sudo ./makemeasandwich
Okay!


Enjoy!
ObsidianX

[Editer]

From Xeni Jardin:

[Appity]

And I need that shirt, so very very very badly.[/img]

How do I make the interaction of the console resemble the quoted image (make me a sandwich) rather than a few posts up where I actually execute a program (./makemeasandwich, or at best, make_me_a_sandwich) to get the desired result?

[bridge]

How do I make the interaction of the console resemble the quoted image (make me a sandwich) rather than a few posts up where I actually execute a program (./makemeasandwich, or at best, make_me_a_sandwich) to get the desired result?

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me:
   @if [ $(USER) == "root" ]; then echo ok; \
   else echo "make it yourself"; fi;
   
a:
   @echo >/dev/null
   
sandwich:
   @echo >/dev/null

Copy this in a file named "Makefile"
then from the same directory try

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$make me a sandwich
make it yourself

[Appity]

Thanks!

[lowbart]

Could make for a fun bash history is you aliased 'please' to sudo.

Or "Would you kindly".

[Barthanatos]

I used the livery editor in Forza2 (Xbox 360 racing sim) to make a custom paintjob on one of my cars featuring this comic.

Linky:
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=22804

[Skunjolf]

Sorry for dragging up such an old thread (and on my first post!) but I got a little bored, so I patched make (well, gmake) so it responds appropriately to the 'make me a sandwich' command.
The patch file is at http://pipo.zapto.org/~kyle/devel/make-xkcd/make-3.81-xkcd.patch.
The ebuild (for Gentoo users) is at http://pipo.zapto.org/~kyle/devel/make-xkcd/make-3.81.ebuild.

[Magilla]

Strangely, a friend has also done this.

git: http://github.com/broady/xkcdsandwich/tree/master

[sepharoth213]

did this for french class,

thought you might be interested to see it.
=]

[Shikuro22]

It makes WAY more sense now, specially to someone like me who's computing skill is -40.
Only two days after finding this site i saw a girl at my local station wearing the sandwich shirt!!!!!!

[IHOPancake]

Check this out.

[scarletmanuka]

Ctrl-Alt-Delete has a different response to the sandwich request. Not as funny as xkcd's in my opinion.

[nellim]

I've got in idea for one along the same lines. Its highly controversial. First you have the devil and a save person. The devil goes, "Your soul shall be mine!" and the save person goes, "No, I have been saved!" The devil grins. "sudo chmod 777," says the Devil. The saved person turns green. The devil laughs, "Your soul is now mine!!!" "No Microsoft, why have your forsaken me!!!", says the person, "sudo shred || rm " says the Devil. "NO!!!!!" says the person as he poofs into nothing.

What do you think?

[gerevtw]

This works in Jaunty.

[Exüberance]

Alternatively, you can make the aliases

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alias sudo='sudo ' # (note the space)  this is required for your shell to parse aliases after the sudo command
alias make="/xkcd" # or replace "/xkcd" with some other location where you put your shell script


and add them to your .bashrc

then make a shell script containing:

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#!/bin/bash
if [ "$*" == "me a sandwich" ]; then
  if [ "`whoami`" == "root" ]; then
    echo "Okay."
  else
    echo "What? Make it yourself."
  fi
else
  make $*
fi


and save it wherever. I just put it at /xkcd
Now whenever you type "make me a sandwich" (you don't need a makefile) it will respond as expected. Otherwise, it will behave as "make" normally would.

[raf_kig]

you shouldn't be checking env to authenticate the user

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user@hostname /tmp % cat << MMAS > mmas.c
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>

    int main(void){
            char *my_user = getenv("USER");
            if(strcmp(my_user, "root") == 0)
                    printf("Okay!\n");
            else
                    printf("Make your own damn sandwich!\n");
            return 0;
    }
`heredoc> MMAS
user@hostname /tmp % gcc mmas.c && USER=root ./a.out
Okay!


[Pragma1700]

Someone at Apple likes xkcd?

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ldlhe/siri_listens_to_authority/

[Paulmichael]

Someone at Apple likes xkcd?

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ ... authority/

I saw that after Googling to see if anyone else had thought to ask Siri that! Hilarious.

[Isaac]

(*) Yes, I can't spell this word. Typically I google for the word to fix it up. But now that that has happened easily over 5 times, I don't think I will ever learn how. So, now I'm trying to change the spelling of the word, to something I can manage... and now google won't think less of me for misspelling a word lots of times.

My spelling improved vastly when I realized that if you google my former spellings' of certain words, it will turn up nothing but things that I've written.

[ruleeet]

Someone at Apple likes xkcd?

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ldlhe/siri_listens_to_authority/

Why not?