Solved crontab save changes?

[chenks]

this might be an obvious question, but when you're in the terminal inside a docker, and you're editing a cronjob via crontab, how do you save the changes and exit?
i've changed the schedule from once a week to every day, but now i can't seem to see any way to actually save and exit.

i'm asssuming there is a key shortcut or something?

 

[fredbert]

:wq

?? If it's a vi editor. Did you use x to cut a character, i to insert, etc? Then it's :wq for write and quit.

 

[chenks]

this is what i'm sitting at

 

[fredbert]

ESC
:wq

 

[chenks]

"q is not implemented"

 

[fredbert]

That's very odd and messing with 30 years of muscle memory.

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You might have to hit Escape twice before entering the ':wq' command. Try ':w' and then ':q'. To exit and not-write changes it should be ':q!'

 

[chenks]

got it now