Write vim file as super-user?

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Mar 15, 20261179 views

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This is a usability problem that happens often to me: I open a read-only system file with vim, even editing it, because I'm not attentive enough, or because the vim on the system is badly configured. Once my changes are done, I'm stuck having to write them in a temporary file or losing them, becaus…

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Explanation: With , you can execute programs. By prefixing it with :w, the file's content (the stuff you have in vim, not the original file, more precisly: the buffer) will be given to the command on standard input. is replaced by the file name, and…

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