[sf-lug] permissions problem

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 20:16 -0700, Alex Kleider wrote:
> $ sudo echo "added line" >> junk
> -bash: junk: Permission denied  # why didn't sudo allow me to do the 
> job?
> 
> I don't understand why the last command didn't go through.

It's because the ">>" is given to the bash instance in which you're
typing it, rather than to sudo.

> Has anyone a suggestion why and (more importantly) how to add a line
> to 
> a privileged file? I suppose I could temporarily change ownership but 
> that seems a long way round.
> tia

$ echo "added line"|sudo tee -a junk >/dev/null
yw