Commit 13b45afe authored by nimrod's avatar nimrod
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Add dt (delayed tee), like tee but can output to the file that's being read... 

Add dt (delayed tee), like tee but can output to the file that's being read from (for example sort foo.txt | dt foo.txt).
parent 6b354a0e

Documents/bin/dt

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#!/bin/sh

set -eu



[ "$#" -gt '0' ] || { echo "Output not specified." >> /dev/stderr; return 1; }

while [ "$#" -gt '1' ]

do

    args="${args:-} $1"

    shift

done

tempfile="$(mktemp -p .)"

# shellcheck disable=SC2086

tee ${args:-} "$tempfile" && mv "$tempfile" "$1"