It also sucks. avoiding a temporary file is the whole point to sponge. otherwise:
cat file | grep file > file_temp; mv file_temp file; On 2 July 2013 14:19, Galos, David <galos...@students.rowan.edu> wrote: >> doesn't sponge soak up into memory, not into a file? > > Soaking up into a file allows sponge to work on large files. It also > greatly simplifies the actual sponge code. >