summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/sponge.docbook
blob: f9395a72eb845f0c8007dd2777501a305243f579 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!--

Copyright ©	2006	Joey Hess

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA

-->

<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.4//EN"
"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/4.4/docbookx.dtd"
[]>

<refentry>

	<refentryinfo>
		<author>
			<firstname>Joey</firstname>
			<surname>Hess</surname>
		</author>
		<date>2006-02-19</date>
	</refentryinfo>

	<refmeta>
		<refentrytitle>sponge</refentrytitle>
		<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
	</refmeta>

	<refnamediv>
		<refname>sponge</refname>
		<refpurpose>soak up standard input and write to a file</refpurpose>
	</refnamediv>

	<refsynopsisdiv>
		<cmdsynopsis>
			<command>sed '...' file | grep '...' | sponge file</command>
		</cmdsynopsis>
	</refsynopsisdiv>

	<refsect1>
		<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
		
		<para><command>sponge</command> reads standard input and
			writes it out to the specified file. Unlike a shell
			redirect, sponge soaks up all its input before
			opening the output file. This allows for
			constructing pipelines that read from and write to
			the same file. </para>
		<para>If no output file is specified, sponge outputs to
			stdout.</para>

	</refsect1>
</refentry>