Matthew Woehlke wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> | So far, it includes the following utilities: >> | - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file > > Eh? That sounds like 'cat > file'...
I was wondering that too. It basically buffers the file in mem so that one can modify a file through a filter without the need for explicit temporary files. Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils