On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 17:23 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Nate writes: > > Some things seem to fail with 'sudo'. > > Sudo applies only to the single command that follows it. Thus if you > type 'sudo' followed by a pipeline, for example, you may not get the > result you expect. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766891