.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. |