Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

[Bo Andresen]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 23:38, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:27:46 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga"
>
> <danieldaveiga@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Sudo takes a command as parameter, enclose the whole command in quotes
> > and try again, like this:
> >
> > sudo "echo "app-portage/porthole ~*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords"
>
>        ^     ^                       ^                                 ^
>
> Careful with those quotation marks - you might want to escape them ;-)
> I would use single quotes on the outside to avoid the confusion:
>
> sudo 'echo "app-portage/porthole ~*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords'

Yeah, and the neat thing ... it still doesn't work... ;) As Daniel admitted in 
reply to Hollys mail in this thread he had an alias for sudo.

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