Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tag -1 wontfix On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 09:40:20AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > [...] > sponge preserves file permissions (as mentioned in the man page), but > not the file ownership. > > This is different from shell redirections in bash, which do preserve > ownership.
yes, you're right. As 'sponge' is not a shell redirect, and it is not designed to emulate one, it behaves more like 'tee' than like a shell redirection. I do understand that preserving the owner might be a nice feature, but I think this could work well only if 'sponge' is called with superuser capabilities (or if installed with suid-bit set). Why do you think that sponge ought to preserve the owner? Did the man page induce that somehow? Kind regards, Nicolas
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