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		repsilat on Feb 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your fil... Is the "right solution" to use `tee`? I saw that once, and it seemed like we should be able to do better -- as if, had `tee` not been in the standard we wouldn't have any way to do it...

yrro on Feb 7, 2016 | [–]

Alternatively: sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /sys/foo'

therein on Feb 7, 2016 | | [–]

You can spawn a shell as root but this is hardly any more elegant.

sudo sh -c "echo 'foo' >> /etc/file"

cyphar on Feb 7, 2016 | [–]

I use tee, but you can always do the ugly sudo sh -c "..." thing.

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