how to write the standard output to an unwritable with sudo?

2008-03-29 Thread lveax 
$ whoami
v


$ ll a
-rw-r--r--  1 root  v  0 Mar 30 10:02 a

$ sudo cat  a
a: Permission denied.
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Re: how to write the standard output to an unwritable with sudo?

2008-03-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas 
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:13:02 +0800, lveax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 $ whoami
 v

 $ ll a
 -rw-r--r--  1 root  v  0 Mar 30 10:02 a

 $ sudo cat  a
 a: Permission denied.

You have to redirect output 'within' sudo, so try using:

sudo sh -c 'cat  unwritable'

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