Re: [PATCH] Add new program: magic

[Brock Noland]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Woehlke
<address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
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> >
> > | So far, it includes the following utilities:
> >
> > |  - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
> >
>
>  Eh? That sounds like 'cat > file'...

So you can read from and write to an existing file.  Much better
solution that the prepend solution I had suggested.

cat a b | sponge b

Brock