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?

  • Agility0971@lemmy.worldOP
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    16 hours ago

    yep. that did it. I had to wrap the entire thing in quotes though

    sh -c "echo 'test' | sudo tee newfile"