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How to open and edit the file in the command line? I tried to use the command open:

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but the file is Locked and I can not change anything.

I need to edit a lot of text and use nano or vim is not very convenient.

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I suspect this is because the permission elevation is for the open command, not TextEdit itself.

You should use a different editor that can have its binary run properly from the command line like SublimeText (sudo subl /path/to/file) or TextMate (sudo mate /path/to/file). Or just suck it up and use vi or nano :-)

If you're going to be doing a lot of this type of thing TextEdit is probably the least desirable editor to use anyhow.

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The easiest way to edit those locked files is to make a copy of them, edit the copy, and then replace the file:

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