"A. Dumas"  writes:
> On 26/03/2018 11:46, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> "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.
>
> No I am no longer confused, that is exactly what I meant & what I
> said: "sudo echo sometext >> /etc/notmyfile" won't work but "echo
> sometext | sudo tee -a /etc/notmyfile" will, for the reason you
> spelled out.

It’s a weird definition of “doesn’t work”. Everything works as
designed;
it’s just not the way to achieve the goal you had in mind.

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