Can someone explain why this would make the command wait forever? What is tee waiting for?

echo "test" | sudo tee newfile

What would be a scriptable workaround for such cases?

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Can’t reproduce.

    16:22:48:~/tmp$ echo foo | sudo tee newfile
[sudo] Passwort für bleistift2:         
foo

16:23:02:~/tmp$ ls -l newfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Feb 23 16:22 newfile
      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 hours ago

        I use zsh and it works fine for me fwiw. Same with zsh --no-rcs (which doesn’t load zshrc). Maybe you have some weird setting enabled?

      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        My initial guess was that sudo would eat up the echo’d foo as the password. Maybe sudo works differently when invoked via zsh?