yq: cannot open files with sudo

Seems like opening a “root-only” file does not work with sudo.

E.g.:

$ sudo yq r /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml network.version
open /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml: permission denied

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 19 (7 by maintainers)

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@jeking3 - I know this is an old post, but I’ve just run up against the same issue; the problem is the snap sandbox.

As this bug report is pretty much the only search result for this problem, I’ll post this here anyway: The solution is to remove the sandboxed version and re-install the classic app version: snap remove yq && snap install yq --classic

Hope that helps someone.

skrussell on Dec 4, 2018

still reproing for me right now

MaurGi on Jun 5, 2020

Hi @mikefarah can we remove the guide for snap install yq in README.md if it doesn’t work as described in this ticket?

jessehu on Nov 19, 2020