Generate script in bash and save it to location requiring sudo
This is how I would do it:
sudo tee "$OUTFILE" > /dev/null <<'EOF'
foo
bar
EOF
Just putting sudo
before cat
doesn't work because >$OUTFILE
attempts to open $OUTFILE
in the current shell process, which is not running as root. You need the opening of that file to happen in a sudo
-ed subprocess.
Here's one way to accomplish this:
sudo bash -c "cat >$OUTFILE" <<'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
#? [ ] / \ = + < > : ; " , * |
#/ ? < > \ : * | ”
#Filename="z:"${$winFn//\//\\}
echo "This is a generated shell script."
App='eval wine "C:\Program Files\foxit\Foxit Reader.exe" "'$winFn'"'
$App
EOF
This starts a sub-shell under sudo
, and opens $OUTFILE
from that more privileged subprocess, and runs cat
(as yet another privileged subprocess). Meanwhile, the (less privileged) parent process pipes the here-document to the sudo
subprocess.