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