echo bug?

[Derek Broughton]

Jay Daniels 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?

Yes, but the redirection isn't happening in the same environment.  I'm sure 
there's some way to do it, but I just "sudo -i" if I need to do it.  

And Shannon said:
> 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?

And that's an _easy_ way?  :-)

In this case, I'd use synaptic.
-- 
derek