03-13-2019
Why are you feeding a function which calls sudo, into sudo? And then you don't even use it, just call it outside sudo afterwards.
Further, you really shouldn't be editing /etc/sudoers like that. sudo on most systems will refuse to operate after /etc/sudoers has been edited by anything but visudo.
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