In :w !sudo tee %… % means “the current file” As eugene y pointed out, % does indeed mean “the current file name”, which is passed to tee so that it knows which file to overwrite. (In substitution commands, it’s slightly different; as :help :% shows, it’s equal to 1,$ (the entire file) (thanks to … Read more
The -S switch makes sudo read the password from STDIN. This means you can do echo mypassword | sudo -S command to pass the password to sudo However, the suggestions by others that do not involve passing the password as part of a command such as checking if the user is root are probably much … Read more
try running: su -c “Your command right here” -s /bin/sh username This will run the command as username given that you have permissions to sudo as that user.
Generators are designed to be installed globally. Otherwise, you always have to install the generator you’re about to use in each project, which is unnecessarily painful. Also, you don’t get to see the lovely yo menu which lists you all the available generators (unless of course, you install them all locally): Setting up npm for … Read more
Edit the sudoers file (with visudo) and add a rule that allows the web server user to run the command without a password. For example: www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/script
Use tee –append or tee -a. echo ‘deb blah … blah’ | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list Make sure to avoid quotes inside quotes. To avoid printing data back to the console, redirect the output to /dev/null. echo ‘deb blah … blah’ | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null Remember about the (-a/–append) flag! Just tee … Read more
For sudo there is a -S option for accepting the password from standard input. Here is the man entry: -S The -S (stdin) option causes sudo to read the password from the standard input instead of the terminal device. This will allow you to run a command like: echo myPassword | sudo -S ls /tmp … Read more
Use a virtual environment: $ virtualenv myenv .. some output .. $ source myenv/bin/activate (myenv) $ pip install what-i-want You only use sudo or elevated permissions when you want to install stuff for the global, system-wide Python installation. It is best to use a virtual environment which isolates packages for you. That way you can … Read more
It sounds like you need to set up passwordless sudo. Try: %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: osascript myscript.scpt Also comment out the following line (in /etc/sudoers via visudo), if it is there: Defaults requiretty
This is an annoying function a feature of sudo on many distributions. To work around this “problem” on ubuntu I do the following in my ~/.bashrc alias sudo=’sudo env PATH=$PATH’ Note the above will work for commands that don’t reset the $PATH themselves. However `su’ resets it’s $PATH so you must use -p to tell … Read more