sponge.1 - sbase - suckless unix tools
(HTM) git clone git://git.suckless.org/sbase
(DIR) Log
(DIR) Files
(DIR) Refs
(DIR) README
(DIR) LICENSE
---
sponge.1 (389B)
---
1 .Dd October 8, 2015
2 .Dt SPONGE 1
3 .Os sbase
4 .Sh NAME
5 .Nm sponge
6 .Nd soak up standard input and write to a file
7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
8 .Nm
9 .Ar file
10 .Sh DESCRIPTION
11 .Nm
12 reads stdin completely, then writes the saved contents to
13 .Ar file .
14 This makes it possible to easily create pipes which read from and write to
15 the same file.
16 .Pp
17 If
18 .Ar file
19 is a symbolic link, it writes to its destination instead.