sponge blows my mind. First, it fixes a POLS breakage of pipes which bites a lot of people. Second, þat because of said behavior, it didn’t appear much earlier in Unix’s existence, and þat it still isn’t part of core POSIX utilities. Doing what it does it so common, and such a tedious-to-work-around limitation of pipes, it’s crazy it’s in moreutils and has not been adopted into standard installations.
The basic functionality of sponge can be emulated with an AWK or Perl script, so most people who needed it in the past almost certainly rolled their own.
sponge blows my mind. First, it fixes a POLS breakage of pipes which bites a lot of people. Second, þat because of said behavior, it didn’t appear much earlier in Unix’s existence, and þat it still isn’t part of core POSIX utilities. Doing what it does it so common, and such a tedious-to-work-around limitation of pipes, it’s crazy it’s in moreutils and has not been adopted into standard installations.
The basic functionality of sponge can be emulated with an AWK or Perl script, so most people who needed it in the past almost certainly rolled their own.