A sudo for Windows designed to handle both command-line and windowed
applications well.
Nothing in particular. However, what I wanted was:
- Something that didn't depend on PowerShell or VBScript. It should be a self-contained binary.
- Something that worked well with command-line programs, e.g. pausing after the application finishes so you can actually see any errors/messages.
All binaries (for X86 and X64) are available at files.fm.
Toss up all 3 executables up somewhere in your PATH. The two important ones are
usudo.exe and usudo-w.exe.
usudo.exe will always open a command prompt, and it will pause once
the application finishes running. usudo-w.exe will NOT open a command prompt
unless necessary (e.g. running a command-line-only application), and there's no
pause after it finishes.
TL;DR: Use usudo.exe for command-line applications and usudo-w.exe
for windowed applications.
Example usage:
usudo choco install googlechrome usudo-w notepad some-important-file.txt