[ltp] Re: ACPI problem ...

[Bill Wohler]

Romuald Fleury <romuald@rfleury.org> writes:

> alca@foo:/proc/acpi/ibm $ sudo echo "on" > light
> -bash: light: Permission denied

The redirection isn't done as root; the sudo command ends at the '>'
character.

The command above needs to be done like this:

  sudo sh -c 'echo "on" > light'

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