I use sponge from moreutils all the time. You know how you always want to ‘sort <file >file’ or something but that doesn’t work because file gets truncated bef

I use sponge from moreutils all the time. You know how you always want to ‘sort <file >file’ or something but that doesn’t work because file gets truncated before it gets read? With sponge you can do ‘sort <file | sponge file’