Write to file forbidden

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 00:47 +1100, GaryT wrote:
> To obtain a recursive listing of all files, I'll use the command
> 	ls -s -S -R
> from the root directory.
> 
> BUT
> When attempting to capture that list by saving it to a text file, I get
> "permission denied"
> 	e.g.	ls -s -S -R >files.txt
> 
> adding sudo makes no difference
> using gksudo also makes no difference.
> 
> please, how does one overcome the problem?

The redirect is opening the output file in the / directory before the
sudo command is executed.  Redirects are handled by the parent shell and
not by sudo. Try it from your home directory. e.g.

sudo ls -sSR / >files.txt
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