How do you pronounce zsh? Sudo? Ssh?

Zed-shell, soo-dough, s-s-h

When I first saw sudo I assumed it was pronounced "pseudo" because it lets you fake like you're doing stuff as another user. So that has stuck for me. (And despite all evidence, I still low-key believe it's a clever pun encompassing both that and the official "superuser do.")

For me, zsh is pronounced "bash."

(One-upping your "full controversy," LOL)

For ZSH and SSH I just speak the letters: Z-S-H, S-S-H. Sudo as "SUE-do" "SUE-doo".

One I wonder about is xrandr. I say "EKS-rand-ur", have heard others say "eks-R-and-R".

edit: for sudo long vowel. Also I tend to stress the H in ZSH and SSH.

zsh: “Z shell”
ssh: S-S-H
sudo: I always think of it as “pseudo”

I enjoy your pronunciation! I've been using Linux primary for nearly 20 years now. Here's my list:

For me (UK):

zsh = zed ess aitch

sudo - exactly the same as "pseudo"

ssh = ess ess aitch

I'm not alone in this, it's only what all of my colleagues say.

Well, achktually SUDO stands for "substitute-user do." The default action just happens to be the super user, but you can substitute any user.

Zed shell.

Pseudo.

Ess ess aitch.

Zee shell
Sue dough
Ess ess aitch

That said, I have no problems changing my pronunciations if I find the creators or whatever said, "Actually, it's pronounced <like this>."

Sue-dough & s-s-h here. Can’t speak to zsh yet, haven’t actually talked about it w/ others yet. How about /etc/? Sometimes I call it “e-t-c” but others I say “etsee”

As a former IT guy, I got used to just saying "secure shell" every time I saw SSH, to help teach my younger IT folks the lingo. I don't even say the acronym anymore. When I did, I just spoke the letters (es-es-aich).

Same for ZSH; I just call it Z-Shell (zee-shell).

Sudo has always been "soo-doh" (or "sue-dough" as OP spelled it; same pronunciation). I've never met anyone who pronounced it differently in my 20 years of IT work.

ZSH = Zee-shell
SSH = S-S-H
SUDO = Sue-dough
KornShell = Aaaarrre you readyyyyyyyyy!

Its fun to talk about SQL pronunciation as well.

I am a fan of “ess Quaal”

Zsh: "Zed shell" or "Zee shell" (depends)

SSH: spelt out S-S-H (both in English and in my native language)

sudo: like "sumo wrestler" only with a "d"

Zee shell, sue dough, s s h

Zee Ess Aitch

Ess Ess Aitch

Psuedo

Sue-doo is weird and unnatural.

“Zee shell”

“Sue doo”

“Ess ess aitch”

I don't pronounce them at all, because that would require friends in the real world

I always read it as zed ess heych

I know it's not consistent but I read them like zsh = zee shell, ssh I spell out "s s h", sudo I say /ˈsuː.doʊ/. or "soo dough"

I never read it out loud, but in my mind it's always "zeesh"

sudo is just pseudo and ssh is just the 3 letters

Zsh: Ts-sch

Ssh: Ss-sch

sudo: Es Yu De Oh

fish: fish

Zeesh. Rhymes with sheesh!

zee-shell or zed-shell, depending on dialect

Sudo - Su-dough SSH - Es-es-eych (ch like change) Zsh - Zesh

I use vie in the zeeshell to edit my suedooers file.

Zed-s-h.

s-s-h

Su-doo

Zush rhymes with kush in my head. But out loud I say the letters because I think zush probably isn't how you're supposed to say it

Soo-dough (dough like the stuff you knead)

Es-es-aych

Oh also, I've found myself pronouncing the normal English word "gnome" as "guh nome" now because that's how the DE is pronounced lol

Chmod = Chad mod

I say "zeesh". Like "sheesh" with a z.

zsh: ĵ
ssh: "ssh bby is ok"
sudo: like sumo wrestling

Es-es-eych

Zed-es-eych

sue-dough

slash-et-see

user-bin-env

• Zee shell
• Sue dough
• Ess ess aych
• Sequel
• Jif
• Double U double U double U dot

sudo rhymes with judo

I've always pronounced sudo the same way that the sudo part of sudowoodo is pronounced. I actually used to think it was an obscure Pokemon reference when I first started using Linux but both Linux and sudo itself Predate Pokemon.

Jif.

There is entirely too much dough in this thread (/j).

I pronounce it staccato:
s'ú . d'ó

ZzzzzZZzzsh

Sue-do

Ass-ass-hate

Z-shell sue doe S.S.H

Zsh - za-sh (like bash)

Ssh - s-s-h

Sudo - sue-do

Awk - aw-k (like the hawk but no h)

Cat - c-a-t

Chmod - ch-mod (ch like change and mod like model)

Mkdir - m-k-dir

Vim - vim

Vi - v-i

Journald - journald (like journal and the d like Harold)

Sed - sed

Man - maan

• "zish" so it doesn't sound like "sheesh"
• ess ess aych
• sue-dough

Zed ess aitch

zorn-shell, do-as, s-s-h

I just pronounce them as I should do in my native language.

ZSH: zé-es-há /zeːɛʃhaː/

SSH: es-es-há /ɛʃɛʃhaː/

sudo: sudó /ʃudoː/ (with ʃ(sh) and long o at the end - this is a rule in my language, every o at the end of a word must be long, with two exceptions)

I say them like this (in my head) even if I read english text.

Z-shell

Zee shell, or zish or just each letter ze es aych depends on my mood and if I’m feeling spicy.

Having no idea what they mean, I'd go with a direct phonetic pronunciation:

• zsh = zish or zĭsh
• shh = shh, sh, or ʃ
• sudo = sü-dō or sue-dough

Only correct answer is whatever theprimeagen says

How about kubectl?

Zee shell, soo-doo, S-S-H.

now better: nginx!

I say zsh, s s h, and sudo. But I'm Finnish and we're literal folk language wise.

At work we all pronounce zsh “zish” like dish but with a z.

sudo is sue-doo, not sue-dough or pseudo

SSH is just s-s-h