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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