`  :``This example shows tee being used to bypass an inherent limitation in the sudo command. sudo is unable to pipe the standard output to a file. By dumping its stdout stream into /dev/null, we also suppress the mirrored output in the console.`` hm. sudo isn't ``unable`` to > to a file, it's just that bash (or whatever you use) interprets the > and it doesn't get passed on to sudo. `some command | sudo 'sh -c ``cat > root_owned_file``'` is equivalent to `some command | sudo tee root_owned_file >/dev/null`, for example.   `