sudo issue

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 13:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Another alternative would be to use a bashism, since e.g.
>   $ sudo cp -rp /mnt/archlinux/.chuser/.home/.jwm{rc,foo} /tmp/
> works.

That is an explicit set of alternatives. That's why it works - bash
expands that to a list of paths, but generating the list does not
require access to the filesystem.

That solution only works if you are able to list every alternative in
advance. And it will throw up errors for every variant that does not
exist:

   kauer at kt:~$ ls z*.txt
   z1.txt
   kauer at kt:~$ ls z{1,2}.txt
   ls: cannot access 'z2.txt': No such file or directory
   z1.txt
   
Regards, K.

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