| .Dd 2015-10-08 | |
| .Dt SPONGE 1 | |
| .Os sbase | |
| .Sh NAME | |
| .Nm sponge | |
| .Nd soak up standard input and write to a file | |
| .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
| .Nm | |
| .Ar file | |
| .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| .Nm | |
| reads stdin completely, then writes the saved contents to | |
| .Ar file . | |
| This makes it possible to easily create pipes which read from and write to | |
| the same file. | |
| .Pp | |
| If | |
| .Ar file | |
| is a symbolic link, it writes to its destination instead. |