[sudo-users] sudo problems with internal shell command

[Wesley Schwengle]

On 10.02.10 14:14 Aaron Lewis wrote:

> Well , i got some problems with such command:
>
> sudo echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
>
> Permission is denied.
> I think it's because 'echo' is run in shell , as normal user  , then it
> fails to run.
>
> This works fine:
> sudo su - -c 'echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth'
>
> Anyway to solve it ?

You can also do it like this:

echo "blaat" | sudo tee /tmp/blaat

or to append to a file:

echo "blaat-append" | sudo tee -a /tmp/blaat

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Wesley

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