[Gllug] sudo and more interesting commands

[Amias Channer]

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:33:01 +0100
Tom Taylor <ttaylor at fotango.com> wrote:

> scenario is I want to run a command like ...
> 
> $ echo foo > bar
> 
> as a normal user where bar is a file writable only by root.  Using
> sudo I would try ...
> 
> $ sudo echo foo > bar
> 
> but that wouldn't work as only echo is being run as root, nor can I
> use a sub shell ... what can I do to sudo a command that is more
> complicated that <command> [args]??

quote it ?    sudo 'echo foo > bar ' 
Making sure that root's bar is the same as the normal user's bar

Toodle-pip
Amias
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