Logged in to vi, made changes, forgot to sudo first - now what
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00:00 Logged In To Vi, Made Changes, Forgot To Sudo First - Now What
00:27 Accepted Answer Score 11
00:45 Answer 2 Score 40
01:07 Thank you
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ANSWER 1
Score 40
From SO:
:w !sudo tee %
I actually find myself using this way to do it more frequently now:
:%!sudo tee %
I think it's a little more intuitive, as I know what :%! does, whereas I don't have a visceral understanding of :w !. Also, it's easy to miss the very important space between the w and the !.
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 11
In this case, I write the file with :w /tmp/tmpfile. Then I go out and move /tmp/tmpfile to my old file with sudo rights.