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Redirecting output in the shell, permissions

I have a question about permissions. Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 (squeeze) So I have a folder with a php script in it. Both folder and file are owned by User1 If I do this: php script.php I ...
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run a command as different user with available sudo permissions

I want to run the below command echo 1000 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness i cannot do it it like below beecause bash is the process that actually directs output to the ...
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Root user can't do everything? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Redirecting stdout to a file you don’t have write permission on I'm quite new to Linux and I have a permissions questions. I'm using Linux Mint. If I go to /opt and do ...
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tail program output to file in Linux

I know we can use below format to redirect the screen output to a file: $ your_program > /tmp/output.txt However when I used below command, it says "-bash: /home/user/errors.txt: Permission ...
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permission denied when redirecting sudo sed output [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on I'm trying to install drupal according to the instructions given in this tutorial: ...
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Why can't sudo redirect stdout to /etc/file, but sudo 'nano' or 'cp' can?

Why does redirection, using sudo give me an error for the following commands? $ sudo printf "foo" >/etc/file bash: /etc/file: Permission denied $ sudo printf "foo" ~/file; cat ~file ...
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How to insert text into a root-owned file using sudo? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on Running a command like sudo echo 'text' >> /file.txt fails with: bash: /file.txt: Permission ...
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Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on

When you attempt to modify a file without having write permissions on it, you get an error: > touch /tmp/foo && sudo chown root /tmp/foo > echo test > /tmp/foo zsh: permission ...