Leds 'access denied' error, also with sudo

Under Raspbian I get “access denied” (also using sudo) trying to access /sys/class/leds/pca963x:$COLOR device… What I’m doing wrong?

echo “255” >/sys/class/leds/pca963x:red/brigtness

I believe it’s because the shell interprets and handles redirection before the command is executed. So the redirection (>/sys/class/leds/pca963x:red/brigtness) is attempted with the user’s permissions, thus fails. Can you please try with sudo sh -c "echo 255 > /sys/class/leds/pca963x:red/brightness" ?

Oh right!! … OMG I’m very stupid after post I got the problem … thanks !

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