On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 10:02:18PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > pv -parle </path/to/file.iso >/dev/sdX > would rather be: > sudo pv -parle </path/to/debian-live-10.10.0-amd64-gnome.iso>/dev/sdb No, that won't work. https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf53 If you want to use redirections with sudo, you either need to wrap things in "sh -c" a lot, or else get a full interactive shell first (sudo -s), and *then* run your commands with redirections.