Why can't I sudo echo a line in /etc/?

Question

I am on centos and I did sudo echo 'testline'>>/etc/test/test it said -bash: /etc/test/test: Permission denied

However, when I do sudo vi /etc/test/test and insert testline and do :wq it writes out fine, why is this happening?

Answer 1

You need to wrap the whole statement (including the redirect) into a group so the sudo extends around it.

sudo bash -c "echo 'testline' >> /etc/test/test"

Note: that, too, will fail if /etc/test doesn't exist yet.