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.

  • Agility0971OP
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    112 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.