Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:12:18 +0100, David Morgan wrote:

> Nope, I don't think you can do it with sudo since bash uses whitespace
> as a separator, so if you do sudo "echo foo >> bar", it'll look for a
> single command "echo foo >> bar", which is not what you want - you want
> a command echo with argument foo, and then redirect the output to bar
> (the double quotes prevent bash from evaluating the whitespace or the
>  >>).

You could do it with a shell script

#!/bin/sh
#Call this /usr/local/bin/suecho
echo "$1" >>$2

Add /usr/local/bin/suecho to /etc/sudoers and you can do

sudo suecho "media-video/xine-ui ~x86" /etc/portage/package.keywords


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Neil Bothwick

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