You want to save vi changes to the file myfile with :w!, but vi complains it can not write to the file. Therefore, you want to check the write permissions on the file. To do this without leaving vi…

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You want to save vi changes to the file myfile with :w!, but vi complains it can not write to the file. Therefore, you want to check the write permissions on the file. To do this without leaving vi, you type:

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A:!ls -l myfile
B:\ls -l myfile
Cesc :ls -l myfile
D:?ls -l myfile

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C
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#vi editor#shell commands#file permissions#:! syntax

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