[solved] Creating a file as root

[doctordruidphd]

I give up. How do I get this to work:

sudo echo "Line of text" > /etc/directory-where-I-dont-have-write-permission/filename

The idea is to have a shell script run as sudo create the file filename with the contents Line of text in a directory that requires root permission to write. By itself, this line does not work, as the sudo doesn't span the redirect.

[toad]

Re: Creating a file as root

to create you need to use touch

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Creating a file as root

Yeah, I thought it was something simple.

....
sudo touch /etc/dir/filename
sudo echo "This works" > /etc/dir/filename
....

Thanks.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Creating a file as root

$ sudo su -c echo "This is a test"/etc/thisisatest.txt
[sudo] password for jerry: 
Unknown id: This is a test/etc/thisisatest.txt
$ sudo su -c echo "This is a test" > /etc/thisisatest.txt
bash: /etc/thisisatest.txt: Permission denied
$ sudo su -
# echo "this is a test" > /etc/thisisatest.txt
# cat /etc/thisisatest.txt
this is a test
#