echo bug?

[Jay Daniels]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 21:51 -0400, Shannon McMackin wrote:
> On 09/11/2009 09:34 PM, Jared Greenwald wrote:
> > What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jay Daniels<tux at myt60.net>  wrote:
> >> Why doesn't this work???
> >>
> >>
> >> sudo echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu hardy main"
> >>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwibber.list
> >> bash: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwibber.list: Permission denied
> >>
> >>
> >> Now I thought sudo was the equivalent to root permissions?
> >>
> >>
> >> jay
> >>
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> Appears he's trying an easy way to add a line to an apt-repo file.
> 
> Can you do a sudo vi of that file?
> 
> 

yes I can, but I wanted to do it from a shell script and wonder why my
echo doesn't work as expected?

Perhaps sudo is not the equivalent of root or echo does not inherit the
permission from sudo?


jay