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.Dd January 30, 2015
.Dt SPONGE 1
.Os sbase
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.Sh NAME
.Nm sponge
.Nd soak up standard input and write to a file
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.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
the same file.
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.Pp
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If the given
.Ar file
is a symbolic link, it writes to the links destination
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instead.