strange sudo

[Olafur Arason]

This is a problem with how the shell works, it is translated into:
execute cat with sudo then the out put of that execution is streamed to
file but it is written as the user.

You can use sudo sh -c "the comannd>thefile"

Olafur Arason
2005/12/11, Alfred Vahau <Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg>:
> Hi,
> I wanted a scratch file in /usr/local so I issued cat > temp.txt.
> Access was denied. So I had to open a root terminal to create the file.
> sudo normally works for me.
>
> What gives?
>
> Alfred,
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