I think this is a good question as moreutils doesn’t do a very clear job of explaining it. Sponge lets you do a series of piped transformations on 1 or more fi

I think this is a good question as moreutils doesn’t do a very clear job of explaining it. Sponge lets you do a series of piped transformations on 1 or more files and overwrite the result back to the original files. Using > things will just break. I’m guessing this also means you can’t pipe something bigger than what your memory can hold.