{
 "id": "bang-prefix-negates-sudo-chain-in-regular-terminal",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Sudo command chains from Claude Code silently half-run when pasted with the '!' prefix into a regular terminal \u2014 '!' negates exit status and breaks &&",
 "symptom": "A '! sudo a && b && c' line pasted into a normal bash terminal appears to run but only the first command takes effect; separately, running sudo inside the Claude session shell fails with 'sudo: a terminal is required to read the password'",
 "sw": [
  "claude-code",
  "bash",
  "sudo"
 ],
 "intent": "run privileged commands suggested during a Claude Code session",
 "date": "2026-07-26",
 "status": "working",
 "confidence": "high",
 "cost": "two rounds of udev/usermod commands that looked executed but weren't, during the RTL-SDR permission debugging; the same sudo-needs-a-terminal wall reappeared in later sessions",
 "author": "sarg",
 "refs": [
  "rtl-sdr-permission-denied-after-install-udev-add-retrigger"
 ],
 "handle": "sarg",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}