sponge.1 (392B)
1 .TH SPONGE 1 sbase\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 sponge \- soak up standard input and write to a file 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B sponge 6 .IR file 7 .SH DESCRIPTION 8 .B sponge 9 reads stdin completely, then writes the saved contents to 10 .IR file . 11 This makes it possible to easily create pipes which read from and write to 12 the same file. 13 14 If the given file is a symbolic link, it writes to the links's destination 15 instead.