Common admin commands?

Question

I usually work with administrator access privileges on my Ubuntu workstations. On a new machine, I've recently been offered only a normal user account; and asked to provide a list of admin-level commands which I would like to use.

As such requests take a long time, I would like to get this right first-time. Is there a command which can analyse my command-line history, and report on which would normally have required admin access? Currently, I can only think of apt-get.

Does this answer your question? How do I search my command-line history for commands I used before? — karel, Dec 06 '23 at 03:29
Yes and no. While it weakens the question to say so, I'd honestly forgotten that I always type sudo at the start of each admin command. That is, I wouldn't have found the question you refer to, because I thought there was no such text to grep. (Perhaps it would be a better question from a user who does use the root account.) — user643722, Dec 06 '23 at 14:29

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '23 at 14:24

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If you do not use root, but a regular user with sudo privilidges, you can run

history | grep sudo

answered Dec 05 '23 at 14:24

MetalMathician

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Thanks. I had completely forgotten that I type sudo before all such commands :-) – user643722 Dec 05 '23 at 15:33

Common admin commands?

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