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redirect, sponge soaks up all its input before
opening the output file. This allows constricting
pipelines that read from and write to
- the same file. </para>
+ the same file. It also creates the output file
+ atomically by renaming a temp file into place.</para>
<para>If no output file is specified, sponge outputs to
stdout.</para>