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I was reading the man page for firewalld.service and I wanted to open up the service.xml from within the man page (which I believe is less).

I know :e would do the job if I had permissions, but instead I had to drop out of the man page, and use sudo less .../service.xml

How do I avoid this in the future?

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AncientSwordRage
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You can run an arbitrary command in man/less with an exclamation mark ("!").

Type

!sudo less .../service.xml

and press Enter to open a new less session as root within your unprivileged man or less.

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