echo bug?
Smoot Carl-Mitchell
smoot at tic.com
Sat Sep 12 19:06:31 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 19:40 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Auer wrote:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > cat >> $1
> >
> > Now you can do this:
> >
> > echo blah | sudo acat some_file
> >
> > ... and "blah" will be appended to some_file, even though it is owned
> > by root.
>
> Great - a shell script version of the tee program. :)
Not quite tee, since tee also writes to stdout. A tee version of the
above would be:
echo foo | sudo tee -a some_file >/dev/null
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