Edit remote files with Vim on Linux

$ vim scp://sk@192.168.225.22/info.txt

  1. user@remotesystem:port (E.g. sk@192.168.225.22)

  2. Single slash (/) - If you want to edit a file that is stored in the $HOME directory of a remote system, you must use a trailing slash to separate remote system’s IP address or hostname from the file path.

  3. Double slashes (//) - To specify full path of a file, you must use double slashes. For example, let us say you are editing a file named info.txt that is located in /home/sk/Documents/ directory of your remote system. In this case, the command would be: vim scp://sk@192.168.225.22//home/sk/Documents/info.txt

  4. If you don’t have ssh/scp access, you can use other protocols, for example ftp. vim ftp://user@remotesystem/path/to/file

Edit remote files within Vim session

:e scp://sk@192.168.225.22/info.txt