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gjvc 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed an...

this idiom should be encouraged:

   echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/class/leds/ath9k-phy0/brightness

rather than the style in the article:

   echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/ath9k-phy0/brightness   # needs root permissions

camel-cdr 4 months ago [–]

Thanks I've been doing dumb sudo sh -c ... stuff before.

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