/usr/bin/sponge

A collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago

From moreutils 0.70-r2 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running sponge --help (exit 0) · terse output. permalink

/usr/bin/sponge: invalid option -- '-'
sponge [-a] <file>: soak up all input from stdin and write it to <file>

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