Wasn't the problem that the redirection of output by ">" was outside the 
sudo *command* 
The "echo" is not needed, only 
sudo sh -c "cat /home/debian/file > eeprom"

On Friday, 25 September 2020 at 15:59:06 UTC+1 RobertCNelson wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 9:48 AM johan.lind via BeagleBoard
> <beagl...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would need some help to understand why I can't write to an DS2433 
> eeprom.
> >
> > System information:
> > BBB Industrial board
> > Debian 10 (Buster IoT Image 2020-04-06)
> > Hardware attached are DS2482 i2c to w1 interface and DS2433 eeprom.
> >
> > Commands executed to set-up system:
> > $ modprobe ds2482
> > $ echo ds2482 0x18 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device
> > $ modprobe wire
> >
> > I can read the eeprom by executing
> > $ cd /sys/bus/w1/devices/23-000002eddd9b
> > $ cat eeprom | hexdump
> >
> > Getting this far I assume hardware is correct and drivers are loaded 
> correctly.
> >
> > debian@beaglebone:/sys/bus/w1/devices/23-000002eddd9b$ ls
> > driver eeprom id name power subsystem uevent
> >
> > Should here be a directory called w1_slave?
> > I see such a directory on some web pages searching for similar problems 
> with w1.
> >
> > Now to the problem.
> > Executing the following command will fail:
> > debian@beaglebone:/sys/bus/w1/devices/23-000002eddd9b$ sudo cat 
> /home/debian/file > eeprom
> > [sudo] password for debian:
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
>
> https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Privileged_echo
>
> sudo sh -c "echo 'cat /home/debian/file' > eeprom"
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Robert Nelson
> https://rcn-ee.com/
>

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