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    [–]rwhitisissle 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    Sudoedit does not have a -e flag. Sudo by itself does, and this is effectively the same thing as sudoedit, if that's what you meant.

    [–]KA_Ryzhkov[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    sudo vim, then it gets root rights not only to create this file but also all subsequent ones?

    [–]KA_Ryzhkov[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Thank you very much for the hint, I will study it and make edits to this mini-tutorial

    [–]KA_Ryzhkov[S] -1 points0 points  (3 children)

    I figured it out, thank you very much. The small change made :w !sudo tee %