On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 03:44:03PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 10:02:18PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > pv -parle </path/to/file.iso >/dev/sdX > > would rather be: > > sudo pv -parle </path/to/debian-live-10.10.0-amd64-gnome.iso>/dev/sdb > > No, that won't work. > > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf53 > > If you want to use redirections with sudo, you either need to wrap > things in "sh -c" a lot, or else get a full interactive shell first > (sudo -s), and *then* run your commands with redirections. Another nice use for 'dd', btw :-) pv -parle < ... | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb <other nice dd options> One charming property of that is that only the 'dd' runs as root. (the usual solution is to use 'tee', but then you have to get rid of stdout). Cheers - t
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