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		einpoklum on April 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody ... > I could argue that responsible thing to do is to use as little resources as possible No, you couldn't, because a sponge is intentionally using more resources: It soaks up as much want as it can. And the program is intended to soak up all of the output. Otherwise it would be `cat`.

sedatk on April 18, 2022 [–]

Your example proves my point: what's responsible is subjective. It's meaningless to talk about doing the "responsible" thing.

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