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A nice use of the "tee" command inside Vim

Written by Wim Stockman - on 13 May 2022.

Saving Read Only file opened in Vim

Ever had the trouble after editing a file you cannot save it with vim since you forgot to open it with root permissions.

Well here is a nice hack around it. Using this little GNU tool called tee.

Use This command to save it ...

	:w !sudo tee %

Found this information in a movie of DT , distrotube.

Around minute 16 of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL29jcWu-1E

Have fun , hope you enjoy this teetorial :-].