• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    1 month ago

    Right, I just meant that you can’t sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)

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      1 month ago

      Oh right, my bad x) I agree, it’s a little bit akward to use su then cat everytime.