Using sponge to replace a file is equivalent to method 6 at: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file

Using sponge to replace a file is equivalent to method 6 at: https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html Note the caveats listed there