Re: History doesn't work !

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:17:34PM -0700, Tintin72 wrote:
>>Did you use sudo vim instead of sudo -e ?
>
> Yes I did. I don't know sudo -e. What it's about ?

man sudo will tell you. It runs the editor as a normal user on a
temporary file. Then sudo writes the content to the real file.

It should be used instead of just plain sudo to prevent running
the editor as root.

Simon
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