Can someone explain why this would make the command wait forever? What is tee waiting for?

echo "test" | sudo tee newfile

What would be a scriptable workaround for such cases?

Edit: this command would not terminate in zsh. This works fine in bash tho.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•7 hours ago

    My initial guess was that sudo would eat up the echo’d foo as the password. Maybe sudo works differently when invoked via zsh?

    • Agility0971OP
      1•7 hours ago

      sudo does not prompt for password in my container. It just elevates the privileges straight away. Yeah, it’s hard to tell. Or test for that matter.