[telephonetemp]

What command can you use in a pipe chain to fully read the input until EOF before passing it on? I'm not a big fan of piping to the shell but such a command could be useful for network applications in general.

[oftenwrong]

One option is vipe from moreutils

http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

[codl]

Another is sponge from the same package.

[oftenwrong]

vipe from moreutils

http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/