[Gllug] sudo and more interesting commands

[Stig Brautaset]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:33:01PM +0100, Tom Taylor wrote:
> $ 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]??

 % sudo sh -c "echo foo > bar"

would do, but I guess that is disqualified by using a subshell?

Stig
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