How to recover crashed vi / vim text files
Issue
Vimcrashed while editing a file- Seeing two copies of my file: the original, and one with
.swpappended to the end - Text file has
.swpextension - Need to recover a file from a crashed
visession
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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