Running Complex Commands with sudo
Apr 03, 2009, 14:03 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Don Marti)
"This fails with “permission denied” because the
file is writable only by root:
$ echo 12000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
"But, this fails too:
$ sudo echo 12000 >
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
"Why?"
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