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Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Curl Options Puzzle

So suppose you've created a wonderful program and you would like to have it send its output into a log file. You might write type the name of your program greater than slash var slash log slash like my file dot log. And of course, that's going to fail because you don't have a right permission in the log directory. So you throw a sudo in front of it and you type 'Enter then path to the log file' That should do it, right? Well, but it doesn't. It fails. Why does it fail? It's a good question. I don't know why it would fail. Adam, do you have any guesses?

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