Both of these commands work: (note the `-S` in `sudo` tells sudo to read the password from stdin).

```
echo 'mypassword' | sudo -S tee -a /etc/test.txt &> /dev/null
echo -e '\nsome\nmore\ntext' | sudo tee -a /etc/test.txt &> /dev/null

```

Now I would like to combine the two, i.e. achieve everything in just one line. But, of course, something like this doesn't work:

```
echo -e '\nsome\nmore\ntext' | echo 'mypassword' | sudo -S tee -a /etc/test.txt &> /dev/null

```

What would work? Thanks:) - Loady

PS: Minor unrelated question: is 1> identical to > ? I believe they are..