sponge

Reimplementation of sponge(1) from moreutils, for Deno.

Requirements

Requires Deno v1.44.1 or later.

Usage

Soak up stdin, write to stdout

deno run jsr:@moreutils/sponge

Soak up stdin, write to a file

deno run --allow-write=file.txt jsr:@moreutils/sponge file.txt

Soak up stdin, append to a file

deno run --allow-write=file.txt jsr:@moreutils/sponge -a file.txt

Example usage

Given a file file.txt with the following contents:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The foo bar baz.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

Running this command, will replace its contents with the same, piped through sed:

cat file.txt |
sed -e 's/foo/bar/' |
deno run --allow-write=file.txt jsr:@moreutils/sponge file.txt