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save a file with sudo vim

Asked by KPatrick

This may seem like a ridiculously simple question, however:

When editing a config file or some other file using the command
sudo vim /etc/wherever/you/put/it

how do you save the edited information and return to the command line portion of the terminal.

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Yes, vim is a strange animal :-)

In Normal mode, type : (that's a colon) to get to the vi command-line. Your cursor will be placed at the bottom of the screen after a colon. The following commands are used on the command-line to save the file and quit the program.
w Write (Save)
q Quit (Close)
wq Write and Quit. (Save and Close)
q! Force Quit (Close without saving changes)

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#2

Just as an afterthought, you may consider using nano. Still a console application but a tad bit more user-friendly.

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