Using sudo to write to a file as root from a script

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:
> command="echo -n %s | sudo tee %s > /dev/null" % (channel, config_file)
>


You shouldn't need to use 'echo' here. Just provide tee with the text
on its standard input, and don't bother with the pipe at all.

ChrisA