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frollogastontoday at 12:41 AM1 replyview on HN

This is honestly the command I ran


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simonciontoday at 1:08 AM

> This is honestly the command I ran

Mmm. Unless your /etc/hosts is wide open or your shell is running as root, you got something like

  -bash: /etc/hosts: Permission denied
because the way to do what you intended is to sudo 'tee' or something similar in function. AFAIK, you can't 'sudo' shell redirection.
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