Guys and girls: Thx a lot for crash course/s! I have to let it go a bit; pretty extreme learning portions here. My head gets all wired up. But I have to go this track; for me it's all in the terminal; it's more accurate, always works,& faster. And I remember it way better. Geg
On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, 22:44 Greg Wooledge, <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 10:02:18PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > pv -parle </path/to/file.iso >/dev/sdX > > would rather be: > > sudo pv -parle </path/to/debian-live-10.10.0-amd64-gnome.iso>/dev/sdb > > No, that won't work. > > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf53 > > If you want to use redirections with sudo, you either need to wrap > things in "sh -c" a lot, or else get a full interactive shell first > (sudo -s), and *then* run your commands with redirections. > >