This won't work. You only elevate the privileges of the curl process, while the redirected output was opened by your shell beforehand. curl https://github.co

This won't work. You only elevate the privileges of the curl process, while the redirected output was opened by your shell beforehand. curl https://github.com/art-dot-git/80x40/blob/master/README | sudo tee /etc/motd >/dev/null