Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]
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- Subject: Re: Sponge [was: Delete all after a pattern]
- From: Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 09:54:21 -0400
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On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:28:15PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Me too, I didn't know about sponge. Small, nifty utility, doing one
> thing -- pretty Unixy.
Oh god, no. Don't use sponge unless you enjoy data loss.
See <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf13>.
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