"A. Dumas"  writes:
> On 26/03/2018 10:13, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> "A. Dumas"  writes:
>>> Yeah and you can't pipe to sudo.
>>
>> Yes you can...
>
> I'm stupid and was only thinking of output redirection to a file
> (which you can make work by '|sudo tee' so that's a counter example
> already...)

Redirection of sudo’s output to a file works fine too. Possibly the
thing that is confusing you is that output redirection is done by the
calling process, which when invoking sudo usually means it is done as a
mortal user.

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