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Is the "right solution" to use `tee`? I saw that once, and it seemed like we should be able to do better -- as if, had `tee` not been in the standard we wouldn't have any way to do it...

Alternatively: sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /sys/foo'

You can spawn a shell as root but this is hardly any more elegant.

sudo sh -c "echo 'foo' >> /etc/file"

I use tee, but you can always do the ugly sudo sh -c "..." thing.

The parent is more similar to doing `sudo find . | grep -- "*-foo.bar" | xargs rm` which I can definitely say I've never done because it's absurd. The consequences of redirecting to a file are usually nil, unlike running rm on the output of a pipeline without at least using -n on the destructive util...

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