Instead, create a vim alias for this command. In your current state, to just come out without committing, you can do :q instead of the :wq as mentioned above.

It's too long and complicated to remember. In vim, you can press i to start entering text and save by pressing esc and :wq and enter, this will commit with the message you typed. If anyone asked me to write this command, I wouldn't be able to. The >/dev/null part discards tee's stdout as you don't need to see it in vim. The tee command now runs in a privileged environment and redirects its stdin to FILENAME. What happens here is vim spawns sudo tee FILENAME and pipes the contents of the file to its stdin. Once your changes are done press esc to exit editing mode. Note - it matters whether you use tabs or spaces when making changes. Type a colon, the letter w (write) and the letter q (quit).

Make sure you are entirely satisfied that you want your screen edits written to the file before you proceed. Make your changes - for example: user ALL (ALL) ALL. If youre happy with the changes youve made to your file, you can exit and save the changes using the :wq (write and quit) command. The difference between these two commands is that :x writes the buffer to the file. :x is another command that saves a file and exits Vim. To save the file while also exiting the editor, use Esc to return to normal mode, then type :wq and press Enter. The special symbol % means the filename of currently open file. Navigate to the place you wish to edit using the up and down arrow keys. The :wq command in Vim saves a file and exits the editor. ZZ is a shortcut that does the same as :x (Save workspace and quit the editor), :rangewq Enter (write the lines in range). In this case the command is sudo tee % >/dev/null.

Press : ( colon) to open the prompt bar in the bottom left corner of the window. Switch to command mode by pressing the Esc key. 6 It is :q (quit, I mean it), not :q (shell escape, pipe current line through q) vonbrand at 0:27 3 'they are unlikely to help future readers' but for some strange reason, it keeps receiving up-votes. Means – write currently open file to stdin of command. Vim Save and Quit Command To save a file and exit Vim, do the following: 1. That works but here's another method that you can use without quitting vim: If you're an intermediate vim user, then you save the file to /tmp directory:Īnd then you sudo move the /tmp/foo to the right location: '/etc/apache/nf' E212: Can't open file for writing You open a file and you forget to use sudo: How many times have you had a situation when you open a file for editing, make a bunch of changes, and discover that you don't have the rights to write the file?

Vim save and quit