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Edit a Remote File Using Vim

May 28, 2023 — Gregg Szumowski

To edit a file remotely using the vim editor, just do the following in a terminal window:

$ scp://username@IP-address//path/to/file.txt


The user must have access to the file being edited.

Tags: cli, vim, scp, motd