On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:29:43PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there a way to do this in one single command? > > $wajig doc > /tmp/wajig_doc.txt > $sudo mv /tmp/wajig_doc.txt /root/wajig_doc.txt > > ie I want to redirect the output of a command to a file and store this > in a directory owned by root. Is there a way to achieve the above with a > single command? > > I have tried > > $sudo wajig doc > /root/wajig_doc.txt
this should work: sudo bash -c 'wajig doc > /root/wajig_doc.txt' (it passes the whole command to a subshell run as root) Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]