01.04.2014 17:33, Chris Adams: > Once upon a time, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >> sudo xzcat Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/sdb >> >> I would get a 'Permission denied' error. > > That's because the "> /dev/sdb" was parsed and handled by your user > shell (redirection is handled by the shell before running the command). > sudo only got "xzcat Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz" as > arguments. You should be able to quote what you want actually passed to > sudo: > > sudo "xzcat Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/sdb" ... which would give a "command not found" error. Something like sudo bash -c "xzcat Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/sdb" should work though, since the shell which is started with elevated rights is doing the output redirection now. -- Regards mks -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
