Adding multiple lines with sudo

Feb 1, 2018

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#shell #sudo

Adding multiple lines to a file with sudo.

Overwrite/Make New

When you want a multi line write to a file using sudo:

1
$ sudo tee /tmp/test.txt << EOF
2
LINE 1
3
LINE 2
4
...
5
LINE n
6
EOF

Append

For appending new lines

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$ sudo tee -a /tmp/test.txt << EOF
2
LINE 1
3
LINE 2
4
...
5
LINE n
6
EOF

Done.