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I am currently following a tutorial that asked to open a file with "sudo vi /..." first and formost I have half an understanding of how to type but I managed and now I need to save the file but how do I do that? I tried to use ctrl x but that doesnt work and there is no other means in the file/ edit section of the terminal. Please help.

kind regards coolxm

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    I'm no `vi` expert, but I think it's Press esc, then w (to write) and q (to quit) You should probably examine vi tutorials, such as [http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html](http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html) – Charles Green Jan 26 '19 at 17:24
  • Closely related: [How do I save files edited with vim?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/252760/how-do-i-save-files-edited-with-vim) – steeldriver Jan 26 '19 at 18:41
  • Why not use a more friendly editor instead, like `nano`? – Xen2050 Jan 26 '19 at 22:38

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To save, press:

:w

That is, the 'colon' key, then the 'w' key. Then the enter key.

To save and quit, hold the shift key, and hit 'z' twice.

To quit without saving, hit:

:q!

Then the enter key.

s. wolfe
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