Re: sudo question
On 20 Nov 2024 17:49 -0500, from greg@wooledge.org (Greg Wooledge):
>> sudo echo "something" >>/etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps
>
>> Can you help me why the first sudo failed?
>
> The redirection >> is being done before sudo is executed.
Indeed.
The usual pattern if you need to do this in a non-root-only script is
to do something like `echo | sudo tee` to tie the sudo to the thing
that needs write access to the output file.
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Michael Kjörling
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