weird xzcat behaviour

[Mark Haney]

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On 04/01/14 11:33, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Mark Haney <mhaney at practichem.com> said:
>> sudo xzcat Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/sdb
>> 
>> I would get a 'Permission denied' error.
> 
> That's because the "> /dev/sdb" was parsed and handled by your
> user shell (redirection is handled by the shell before running the
> command). sudo only got "xzcat
> Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz" as arguments.  You should be
> able to quote what you want actually passed to sudo:
> 
> sudo "xzcat Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-20-1-sda.raw.xz > /dev/sdb"
> 

Well, someone on the Fedora team needs to fix the documentation then.
 But now it makes sense.  I didn't stop to think about the redirect,
since my boss isn't giving me time to think.  Apologies for spamming
the list.


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Mark Haney
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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64
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