Package: moreutils Version: 0.60-1 Severity: normal sponge preserves file permissions (as mentioned in the man page), but not the file ownership.
This is different from shell redirections in bash, which do preserve ownership. root@rs3:~# ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 hamish hamish 0 Jan 22 09:39 foo root@rs3:~# echo hi > foo root@rs3:~# ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 hamish hamish 3 Jan 22 09:39 foo root@rs3:~# echo hi | sponge foo root@rs3:~# ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 Jan 22 09:39 foo Hamish -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages moreutils depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1+deb9u1 ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 moreutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages moreutils suggests: pn libtime-duration-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 -- no debconf information
