sudo issue

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 23:00 +1000, blind Pete wrote:
> You could probably pass the wild card, rather than what the 
> wild card expands to (as Ralf), to sudo by escaping it.  
> 
>   $ sudo cp -rp /mnt/archlinux/.chuser/.home/.jwm\* /tmp/

Sadly no - because sudo does not execute the command in a shell, so
arguments passed to it are not processed as a shell would.

   kauer at kt:~$ sudo ls /root
   z1.txt
   kauer at kt:~$ sudo ls /root/z\*
   ls: cannot access '/root/z*': No such file or directory

Regards, K.

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