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    [–] mvirts 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Wait you guys don't sudo echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger?

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think you'd have to do echo o | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger, otherwise sudo only works for the echo, not the write.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Holy shit the reason for tee never really clicked until I saw this post. I’d used it in pasted commands, but it had always seemed superfluous.

    [–] clumsyninza 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

    It writes to a file like >, and echos it back at the same time; in this case the latter isn't needed (we're just using it to write with sudo), but it's good to know.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    echo c | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger 🫣

    [–] mvirts 6 points 1 year ago

    Ah I guess I just use sudo bash a lot 😅