https://github.com/chaostheorie/sponge

Sponge. A moreutils sponge clone
https://github.com/chaostheorie/sponge

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Sponge. A moreutils sponge clone

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chaostheorie/sponge
• Owner: Chaostheorie
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-04-21T08:41:25.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-21T17:06:12.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-23T15:23:01.046Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: cli, moreutils, python
• Language: Python
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• Size: 2.93 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Sponge — Slurping your pipes

Sponge is a simple python tool for reading from stdin and writing the collected input to a file. It was inspired by [moreutils sponge](https://www.putorius.net/moreutils.html) but rewritten for my personal use as a portable python script. This version of sponge also features the ability to buffer stdin data in a tmp file on disk and later on write in chunks to the destination file for large amounts of data.

The intended use case is for oneliners in POSIX shells: `grep pattern data.txt | sponge data.txt`. Since alternative solutions like `grep pattern data.txt > data.txt` will not work or require writing results in a separate file.

## Usage

`sponge -h`:

```

Usage: sponge [OPTION]... [FILE]

Read full stdin input (until EOF) and write to FILE

  -h, --help               Print this help message

  -t                       Buffer stdin output in tmp file before writing

  -e                       Read from stderr instead of stdin

```