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Write With Sudo	2025-04-18T22:06:20-07:00	Tech-Snippets

A snippet that I find myself needing more often than I'd like to admit - when you've opened a file for editing in vim, but when you go to save you are reminded that it needs root permissions to do so.

:w !sudo tee %

This translates to:

• :w - "write this file¹ to..."
• ! _ "...the stdin of the following command:"
• tee % - "the command tee, passed as argument <the filename currently being edited>"

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1. Technically I think "this buffer" might be more accurate? ↩︎