JD wrote: > cd /var/lib > sudo tar cjf - rpm > rpm.tar.bz2 > sh: rpm.tar.bz2: cannot create [Permission denied]
Why use f - and then redirect stdout when you could just do:
sudo tar cjf rpm.tar.bz2 rpm
?
> Is this an established legacy behaviour of sudo?
This is the way it has always been and will always be.
If you do find other cases where you need this sort of thing, a common
idiom involves tee:
echo foo | sudo tee /path/to/some/root/owned/file > /dev/null
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