echo bug?
Jay Daniels
tux at myt60.net
Sat Sep 12 02:56:05 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 19:23 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>
> --- On Fri, 9/11/09, Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> wrote:
>
> From: Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net>
> Subject: Re: echo bug?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 9:13 PM
>
> 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?
>
> Have seen similar situations where sudo doesn't work but
> issuing
> the command from a root terminal does. You might try opening a
> root terminal and running the echo command again to see if it
> works,
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
>
Works from root terminal, so it must be a bug in sudo.
jay
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