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'sudo make me a sandwich'

    -bash: sudo make me a sandwich: command not found

I'm surprised you don't have make installed. That's usually one of the first tools I install on any new system (if it's not included as part of the base install, like Arch does):

    sudo apt-get install build-essential

Incidentally, the make error you'd get is amusing:

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

    sudo make me a sandwich

will result in sudo running with 'make me a sandwich' as arguments.

    'sudo make me a sandwich'

will result in 'sudo make me a sandwich' running.

Ah, yes. I didn't spot the quotations encapsulating the code in the parent post. That will teach me to skim-read jokes.

I like hilariously meta jokes.

Maybe sudo is not installed?

    sudo pacman -S make
    curl https://put.honkgong.info/ed8e3df8691ec7944a878cea595e00c363079504 > Makefile
    sudo make me a sandwich

Let's run arbitrary code downloaded from somewhere I don't know! As root!

Did you read the linked Makefile?

1. The posted code could change between when you read it and when I read it.

2. If you just cut-and-paste these three lines, then you are obviously not reading it.

That's why you have another line saying something like:

    cat Makefile

before blindly executing it. In general, you shouldn't blindly believe downloaded code, but in this case Makefile is simple enough that you can prove it's non harmful in a few second glance.

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