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

$ whoami v $ ll a -rw-r--r-- 1 root v 0 Mar 30 10:02 a $ sudo cat a a: Permission denied. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

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'