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Elevate to root privilage, in VIM, on the go

Suppose you opened a file in the Vim editor, made a lot of changes, and then when you tried saving those changes, you got an error that made you realize that it's a root-owned file, meaning you need to have sudo privileges to save these changes.

:w !sudo tee %

The aforementioned command will ask you for root password, and then let you save the changes.

Credit: https://www.howtoforge.com/linux-tee-command/

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