How to recover crashed vi / vim text files

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Issue

  • Vim crashed while editing a file
  • Seeing two copies of my file: the original, and one with .swp appended to the end
  • Text file has .swp extension
  • Need to recover a file from a crashed vi session

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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