Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Attached is a patch against moreutils to add a -p/--preserve option to > sponge that prevents it from modifying the output if the input is > identical. This means that something like this: > > generate-web-page | sponge -p > ~/public_html/index.html > > no longer results in the output file looking modified to web browsers. > > To implement this, I am afraid I felt it necessary to change a bunch of > other things, too. The code no longer keeps the entire input file in > memory, instead it uses a temporary file. I also added option parsing > with getopt_long.
Fraid the use of mkstemp, besides having the permissions portability problems documented on its man page, means that all files this version of sponge touches come out mode 600. -- see shy jo
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