Re: Write to file forbidden

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 00:47 +1100, GaryT wrote:

To obtain a recursive listing of all files, I'll use the command
ls -s -S -R
from the root directory.

BUT
When attempting to capture that list by saving it to a text file, I get
"permission denied"
e.g. ls -s -S -R >files.txt

adding sudo makes no difference
using gksudo also makes no difference.

please, how does one overcome the problem?

The redirect is opening the output file in the / directory before the
sudo command is executed. Redirects are handled by the parent shell and
not by sudo. Try it from your home directory. e.g.
sudo ls -sSR / >files.txt
Many thanks, Smoot.
GT


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