For some reason, when I am trying to edit vi .profile
, the terminal keeps telling me that I already have the .profile in the edit mode.
E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name ".profile.swp"
owned by: smaranh dated: Fri Apr 6 09:46:45 2012
file name: ~smaranh/.profile
modified: YES
user name: smaranh host name: ubuntu
process ID: 4394
While opening file ".profile"
dated: Fri Apr 27 10:35:32 2012
NEWER than swap file!
(1) Another program may be editing the same file. If this is the case,
be careful not to end up with two different instances of the same
file when making changes. Quit, or continue with caution.
(2) An edit session for this file crashed.
If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r .profile"
to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").
If you did this already, delete the swap file ".profile.swp"
to avoid this message.
".profile" 23 lines, 713 characters
Press ENTER or type command to continue
So I tried to kill the process that the message above was showing, but it keeps showing No such process
.
I then used ps -ef | grep 4394
and got this output,
smaranh 3491 3375 0 10:08 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color=auto 4394
So I tried kill -9 3491
but it still gave me No such process
. Not sure what is wrong?
How do I close the already open .profile
?