Sudo save a file from within Vim

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on June 14, 2010 - 7:00pm

In Vim, save a file you edited in vim without the needed permissions

:w !sudo tee %

Searched words:

started editing cannot save read only darned readonly file sudo tee write overwrite

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Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 11, 2013 - 5:31pm.

Via Stefan Freudenberg via colleagues at Zeit, add this to your .vimrc file and you can always just use ":W" instead of ":w".

{syntaxhighlighter BASH}command W :execute ':silent w !sudo tee % > /dev/null' | :edit!{/syntaxhighlighter}

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