On Vi, 05 nov 21, 19:17:11, Thomas George wrote:
>
> I have used sudo successfully with many commands including mkdir but sudo
> tar fails to uncompress files because it cannot make the necessary
> directories. That is sudo tar runs but must use mkdir which fails.
In such cases you might want to run the command in a `sudo -i` (or '-s',
depending on your preference) session.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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