SPUG: Inspired, broken.

[Tim Maher]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:27:48PM -0800, Atom Powers wrote:
> > 
> This doesn't work: ( I apologize for the line breaks )
> 
> apowers at hermes0:/home/mailman> sudo -u mailman perl5 -wnl -e 
> 'm/\w+\@\w+\.\w{3}/ and print "\L$&\E OK";' address_list.txt > 
> recipients.txt
> recipients.txt: Permission denied.

Apparently the mailman ID is attempting a write to the
current directory, and it doesn't have permission there,
so use a directory it can write to; for example:

sudo -u mailman perl5 -wnl -e 'command' infile > /tmp/outfile

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